This post was getting attention.

Then this exchange by the mod

I tried to post and well well well, post was locked. https://lemmy.world/modlog

  • Unruffled [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    73·
    2 days ago

    All the links are directed to social.heise.de, so it’s definitely got spammy characteristics imo, even if it’s not commercial spam. While awareness raising about federation functionality is probably fine, it’s also presumably meant to direct traffic to that specific instance, which is arguably a form of advertising.

    • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukEnglish
      14·
      2 days ago

      That’s just how Mastodon tags work, they get turned into HTML <a> tag with the href pointing to the local instance’s view of that tag. Lemmy then turns that HTML into markdown, hence all the links to poster’s instance.