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…
I registered as Emotional_Series7814 on kbin.social. Then I saw a post recommending that we don’t all register on the main site but scatter to other instances—after all, the point is to _de_centralize. So I went to kbin.cafe, attempted to register as Emotional_Series7814, and succeeded.