The more people see the engagement, the more chance of them asking “what is that?” It won’t be long until the apps are better, and links to articles could be less likely to get suppressed than migration memes.
I can only speak for myself, but I only saw Mastodon as viable after I started being exposed to the content there…
My understanding is that our user profiles are tied to an instance and you cannot transfer it. I saw a post saying it would be good tonhave a centralized user account you can sign into different instances with so you don’t have this issue. I think you could totally create a [email protected] and pretend to be me. I guess that means there could be multiple users with the same user names. If you end up not liking your instance or it gets shit down I think you just move on.