It's not the precise number listed, that's important. It's that having followers allows you to post something and have someone respond because they can see your notes. And more followers mean more people might respond.

Not everyone on here is so autistic, that they enjoy talking to themselves all day. And that's an absolutely fucking outrageous thing to demand from people using a

*checks notes*

social media app. 

 I think there's no current debugging for that other than living irl in the same neighborhood and even so... well.
But yes is true that to engage this way is a must of the thing, otherwise it turns a foss bedtable diary of un attended dreams but properly logged 

 LOL fr

People literally like, "I've just been talking to myself, every day on here, for 8 months, and it's been great. I don't need any followers."

That's not an opinion, it's a diagnosis.