RE: If you are doing follow for follow... Get off the platform!!!
I'm down to clown with that, so to speak, I don't follow everyone that follows me either, and I get a lot of notifications telling me someone followed, then unfollowed, followed again, unfollowed again, repeat this roughly 20 times in a row. People who's content I can't consume to begin with because it's video (I'm deaf so I don't consume that content due to lack of accessibility).
I'm here to read, I'm here to write, I'm here to provide tools that the community may find useful. That's about it. I don't do follow 4 follow, it's not worth my time and it would be wise for people to stop wasting their time and mine, and would greatly appreciate it if they'd stop doing the follow unfollow routine to try getting my attention to their content that I can't consume to begin with. And it's ALWAYS people that post tons of videos that they themselves don't own too.
Seriously, if I wanted to watch a ton of clips from National Geographic, I'd go to YouTube and search for it. (dtube doesn't have closed captioning x.x)
If you don't follow me back, that's fine, I'm following people because they write things that I enjoy reading or are a part of a community that I'm personally part of and thus have some sort of stake in that regard.
I totally hear where you are coming from, you hit also a very important point which I never thought of. When I first came on the platform I was going to be one of those people too, who was going to post videos and make it all about me, until I got some revelations. Then I thought about it and thought it should not be about me, it should be about what I can contribute to the platform to help others. Personally I am sure you agree @outoftheshellvlog it would not bother me in the slightest if I lost most of the following I got and ended up with 5 people, because I would probably have more interaction with that small % than with a mass of time wasters. Also like you if I follow someone and they don't follow me back thats fine, I am following for a reason usually its to better myself on the platform.
Yeah I actually fully know where you're coming from. I'm on a certain discord server you're in xD and coincidentally also curated in the same curation post you were where you detailed your issues with a certain video platform. I still upload to dtube though because YT gives me hassles. I don't speak in a lot of my videos but instead I sign with Signed Exact English and for some retarded reason I still get copyright claims on the video .... that has nothing but regular background noise. Not TV, no radio, just like the A/C or heater running and maybe hearing me breath talk while signing.
Super tired of filing counter claims against content that shouldn't have a copyright claim on them.
Your reasoning is valid though and I see where your coming from. :)
I'm CryptoDeaf.