I had a buddy who did 4 years of service (air Force I think) and came back with hearing damage. Personally, I'd rather not risk that for no real reason.
Bold of you to assume I was more than a lurker on reddit. /s
On a more serious note, although that does MAYBE help spread awareness, it does not stop the fact that reddit would be getting the initial traffic. The one searching for information would be directed to reddit via a Google search, then hear about Lemmy in the comment. This still leads to reddit getting traffic, which is ultimately not the goal. Additionally, because our hypothetical "researcher" is only looking for answers in this case, I doubt they'd be motivated to sign up for Lemmy purely out of gratitude.
Well as a user of both opera GX and Firefox I haven't seen that many obnoxious links or anything of the like. But then again, I didnt see many when I was on chrome so who knows.
I'm out here pixel-peeking. I know that says it's a 30 series. Not good enough!