It's a chicken-egg problem, tho, as you can't get quality followers, without quantity followers. You have to get over a certain number, to create a dynamic impulse, depending upon your content, because discovery is _still_ primarily over followers.
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I agree with you, in fact I think my number of followers is excessively high compared to how many I have ever had on other social networks. However, in this quantity I have fortunately also found quite a lot of quality, but I do not sit on my laurels and try to keep producing valuable content.