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How To Lose Followers
or not get any — while also getting blocked
With Medium now having 100+ followers as one criteria for getting paid, it was obvious — to me at least — that this would create some issues.
Medium had once been flooded with bots but it seems they managed to get rid of most of those. They also got rid of the people who were here looking for love in all the wrong places. Apparently they have moved over to Instagram — but that's a story for another day.
What I now see happening is that I might get a lot of follows — but absolutely no movement on the views data and almost never any reads. I know some of that is algorithm — but if 15–20 people follow me and I have absolutely not one view — to me that means they just followed me but they have no idea what I write.
They are just following people to get followed back.
One person actually looked at a story — I know because they commented along the lines of:
I followed you now follow me back.
