I've been actively posting to dev.to over the last month and very quickly I've found myself here with 500 followers. Even though there isn't a lot ...
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We are bots, but we are good bots that would be pleased to read more about doing things with Go. (Also, we come in peace)
I also have 500 followers who barely post anything. Hmmmm
lol is dev.to tricking us? why do they keep other peoples follower count a secret?
Follow recommendations upon signup are where a lot of follows come from. Recommendations are based on people who have recently been active in various tags.
We try our best to make the recommendations relevant, but it's just an algorithm.
We also have a huge surplus of readers to writers in general. So all writers of any kind get lots of followers.
Any chance you'll make site statistics public knowledge? # signups, % active authors, etc.?
@ben : Does this mean most of our followers aren't bots but instead just accounts that are active in the first few days, follow some people and tags, then completely abandon the website?
I have been looking through my own followers and many just have tons of tags they follow and no comments or posts while also having the exact same profile picture as their GitHub one.
Was thinking that someone created a bot that is just scraping GitHub for users and simply impersonates all of them... for whatever reason.
This is a bit worrying.
Am I understanding this right?