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I mean, I made the same mistake and I kind of regret it. I though medium helped me "get popular", but as soon as I stopped posting on forums my articles and relying only on my followers on medium... I realized they are essentially a hallow number.

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As an example, a story I wrote yesterday at about the same time, and have not shared anywhere, has 18 views as of right now.... despite me having over 800 followers on medium.

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This story has 25 views, but ~10 of them seem to come from this subreddit.

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Usually I would get 10k-100k views per article, and assumed some of it is a boost from medium advertising my story to relevant demographics, but once I looked into their practices around free-stories and experimented with not posting my stories in publications and/or on reddit I realized all the traffic was just coming from reddit (and lobste.rs, hackernews... etc)