This is a wide spread phenomenon on the platform. Sometimes its just a few comments or even dozens of comments in response to an original comment on a post being grouped together in another button saying (x number of replies) but when you open those replies its either nothing, or significantly less replies than the prompt described. Its mostly all on posts that are political in nature relating to the current fascist takeover in the USA, Luigi Magnione, amazon union busting, anti laborer’s rights legislation, loosening of child labor laws and other topics related to the wider topics regarding disappearing human rights under emboldening fascist authoritarianism. many of us have seen the news articles that mention allegations of reddit censoring comments and giving people violations for liking certain content but nothing is being said about the actual extent of this censorship. But when you can see hundreds of comments being deleted from a post such as this one here, it doesn’t bode well for the future
There is at least one luigi community on lemmy but its pretty small. Reddit deleted at least a dozen luigi Mangione communities that sprung up in the beginning that had hundreds of thousands of members snd now the 2 main groups are free luigi snd justice for luigi mangione there are also a couple anti luigi conservative corporate boot licking communities some think are satirical but are obviously not satire and just massive law enforcement dick sucking boot licking circle jerks one is r/fuckluigimangione its quite ridiculous.
The freeluigi community has done a good job of posting pertinent news and information on the case but it is pretty mild and definitely working hard to neuter any calls for revolution against the wall street billionaire military and prison industry profiteer class to ensure reddit doesn’t shut it down as well or it could be LEO operated to keep an eye out on people who express opinions unfavorable of our billionaire slave masters