Just a mild personal anecdote, but one of my friends from growing up who I rarely see would occasionally 'like' a bunch of my facebook posts at once but it would be few and far between. I asked her about it in October 2020, and of course, facebook never showed her my posts unless she happened to proactively go to my profile.

What she was looking for at the time was information about the Hunter Biden laptop story, which like you, I did not think was itself so big of a deal as the massive effort to censor it, but of course I had posted about it a few times.

Its crazy how fast everything slipped into insane censorship once it started, its important to personally know dissident people, I suppose.