I suppose encouragement couldn't hurt. As for myself, however, I rarely spend any time on my other platforms because I barely have enough time to do so given all the other aspects of life at the moment. I suppose it might be better than spamming one's Facebook timeline with nothing but Steemit links.
What about an affiliation between Steemit.com and IFTTT? I can't tell you how awesome it would be to be able to create IFTTT recipes using Steemit as the trigger.
IFTTT integration seems reasonable. I'll forward the suggestion on to the dev team, unless you would prefer to open a GitHub issue yourself.