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 wonder how long it’ll take before Reddit starts shadowdeleting anything containing links to Fediverse websites?
Oh, probably like -5 days. I’m sure they’d just be blacklisting domains, though. Linking to smaller, lesser-known instances that don’t literally have “Lemmy” in their URL might work, though. Especially if you don’t re-use any particular instance too frequently.
But that might also confuse people.
url/link shorting websites that used to be used to hide rickroll links all the time would probably work to get around that