Let’s try it again: This post from #Mastodon can reach the whole #Fediverse, #Bluesky & more. That’s #Sharkey, #Pixefeld (hence the pic), #Mbin, #Lemmy, #Friendica, #Hometown, #Akkoma… How far can it go?
Please share it, wherever you see it! #SocialMedia
@woelkchen@lemmy.world @mho@social.heise.de
I think you misunderstood the request to “share” there. They’re most likely talking about boosts, Mastodon’s version of Twitter’s retweets. Lemmy, I think, doesn’t implement boosts. So it makes sense you would interpret it differently.
Basically, this isn’t a call to repost. It’s essentially just asking to upvote and boost and OP can then see from where those interactions came.
It’s on topic and your community has no rule against test/experimental posts.
Your community might want some additional rules if these kinds of posts are undesired. Like a low effort rule maybe. Or a rule against posts asking for upvotes and similar actions. A quick look at lemmy.world’s site-wide rules didn’t look like such a rule is there.
It doesn’t, making the posting to Lemmy completely pointless, even if it wasn’t a commercial experiment. Cross-posts don’t count as boosts.