How to Build a Community Using Your ‘Following’ Tab

An Effective Strategy to Enhance Your Medium Experience

Do you like following people on Medium?

Me reading Medium stories on my phone while taking a break from work, and following my favourite authors. | Photo by bruce mars on Unsplash

Most of us do, that’s what we are here for — to read amazing stories besides writing.

We each have different strategies for following people.

Some follow every author of a nice article they read, some randomly follow people as part of a follow-for-follow strategy, some follow like-minded individuals to build a community, and some follow authors they discover and like.

I fall into the last category — I follow people whose multiple pieces of content touch my heart and teach me valuable lessons. I want to read their work repeatedly and have their articles recommended to me, which is why I follow them.

What is your strategy for following people?

Many of us make a significant mistake on Medium,

even my followers do!

We all feel bad that our followers are inactive and do the same after following others. | Photo by Francisco De Legarreta C. on Unsplash

We follow authors and then forget about them, never engaging with them again unless their…