Who do you follow on Medium?

I follow people because I admire their stories, and you?

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Lately, my followers on Medium increased. Unfortunately, I can’t say the same about the claps I received for my stories.

This simply doesn’t add up for me. People follow me, even if they either didn’t read a single piece from me or didn’t like it at all? Why would someone do this? It seems like…