r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • 23d ago

Social Media Reddit Is Restricting Luigi Mangione Discourse—but It’s Even Weirder Than That: The website is attacking the users that made it the front page of the internet.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250313203719/https://slate.com/technology/2025/03/reddit-elon-musk-luigi-mangione-censorship.html
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u/thespaceageisnow 23d ago

Its best days are certainly behind it.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Fix594 23d ago

I feel like reddit, more so than most other social media websites, is pretty ripe for a competitor. It's just a link aggregator with a comment section.

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u/sicclee 22d ago edited 22d ago

I can't help but disagree. The thing you dismiss as a 'comment section' is so much more than that. It's nested, forking conversations that are regularly deep with interesting opinions, personal or professional experience, skillful and specific knowledge that's often obviously shared with passion... and so much more.

Reddit is the only place on the internet that I can find regular people having real conversations about interesting stuff without sifting through tons of bullshit clickbait and influenc-za (I just made that up, I'm so cool). It's not always true, or accurate, or useful.. but it's often engaging and it's definitely helped me realize things like where I stand on certain issues, what really matters to me, what doesn't, what I find interesting, etc..

Plus, so many reddit posts aren't links. They're prompts, or questions, or shared moments / thoughts / opinions. Even the ones that are links are usually just a push to get the conversation going.

It may be ripe for a competitor, but everyone that's ever tried to compete has massively misunderstood what makes it great. There's a reason it dominates 90% of google's first page search results.

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u/ShinyJangles 22d ago

Really well said. I would keep a bookmark list of forums, but the upvote/downvote ordering, and expanse of topics with daily content is unmatched. Other platforms don't understand that the downvote is sacred to an interesting ranking, or that some people really want to read their entertainment media.