EDIT: @mindbleach@sh.itjust.works shared something that might help to circumvent this shit:
Contained in these parentheses is a zero-width joiner: ()
Basically, add those to whatever you feel that might be filtered out, then remove the parentheses. The content inside the parentheses is invisible, but it screws with regex rules.
Yeah we don’t need Reddit to advertise Lemmy. I don’t use reddit and reddit is obviously guarded against competitors since they’re a corporation. I guess discord would be a better way to advertise Lemmy since it’s not direct competition. So I guess post Lemmy links there