Some popular clients don't offer long-form and don't display them to their users, so posting in long-form immediately cuts your audience down, dramatically. I try to get around that by posting a Kind 01 note with a link to the article.
yeah, I added a flow to share a kind:1 note with a link and an opengraph image after publishing/scheduling a long form on @Highlighter for this reason. It also publishes the opengraph image to your Blossom server and publishes a kind:1063 media image to go with it 😅 https://blossom.primal.net/b9b3885da7268e79602f55340a536cf1e6d5a45005c214aaf2dc6c7ef9f4dd79.png