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…
That’s the tactic that got me started on Reddit. For a while before the dreaded relaunch, many of the links on Digg were just linking to Reddit posts.