I Just Unfollowed a Bunch of Writers on Medium

Here’s my criteria

Mary Gallagher
The Unscripted

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Photo by Milad Fakurian on Unsplash

Medium is unlike other social media platforms, where your follow-to-follower ratio impacts the algorithm's favor toward you. I don’t follow a writer to get their follow and then turn around and unfollow them.

But I do like tidiness and efficiency.

Every so often, I go into my Following tab to see if the writers I am following are still active on Medium or if they’ve gone rogue on me and veered from posting about intentional living and pets to rants about politics or abortion.

I do this on my phone’s app while watching television or sitting with my husband while he watches football.

screenshot of Following screen from the author’s phone

It always surprises me when I find writers with thousands of followers suddenly disappearing from the radar. What made them walk away from this platform?

Perhaps a personal problem, medical condition, or just the busyness of life got in the way.

Some are fleeing for greener pastures. A once prolific writer on Medium can vanish overnight.

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Mary Gallagher
The Unscripted

I cut the stress, slowed down, and learned the art of intentional living. When you declutter your soul, you make room for what matters. @The Decluttered Soul