The more people see the engagement, the more chance of them asking “what is that?” It won’t be long until the apps are better, and links to articles could be less likely to get suppressed than migration memes.
I can only speak for myself, but I only saw Mastodon as viable after I started being exposed to the content there…
According to some users on r/redditalternatives some people have already been shadowbanned for posting lemmy links.
I posed this over a week ago as a test, and nothing seemed to happen.
Says deleted
That’s just because the mods who made that sub decided they don’t like the lemmy devs.
I also don’t like the Lemmy devs because of the nonsense they pull around the topic of the Chinese and Russian governments.
Still don’t block the people on my subs from talking about it. Because I’m not an asshole, and I don’t have to like everything that gets posted to my subs.
That’s how a shadow ban works. You think you’re posting as normal, and you see your posts, but your posts don’t show up for others and your votes don’t count.
It says “that comment is missing” for me.
I wonder if a link shortener would avoid that
Most big subs ban those full stop. Just because of what you’re suggesting.
Good question, but idk the answer