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I Culled my Following List
Did you make the cut?
About a month ago, I wrote an advice article for Medium.
I didn’t expect Medium to change its mind. While I have seen writers like , , and start from almost zero and build a large Medium following, I, after six years, still languish as a bottom writer. I have zero creds for giving anyone advice. But I gave Medium a piece of my mind anyways.
One suggestion was to limit each member to follow only 50 writers or pubs. My reasoning was unlimited follows sets up quid-pro-quo deals between writers. If I comment-and-clap on your stuff and you comment-and-clap on my stuff, then both our stuff gets more attention from the Medium algorithms and we get more exposure in the feeds. We help each other out, right? In my case, this really has not worked. Rather I suggested Medium emphasize that readers follow writers because readers like reading these writers.
But I was following 507 writers and pubs. There’s no way I could follow that many writers. I should at least take my own advice, right? So…
