Okay so I was gaining new friends on duolingo on the scale of about a hundred every two days. But about a month ago, suddenly I hit a wall and stopped gaining any new friends. It just sort of hovered around 19,006. Went up one but then down. Now it’s slightly below 19,000. I took a screenshot of the followers of someone else with a lot of followers about a week ago - Nathan Merklinger - to test my theory. His followers have stagnated and slightly decreased too.
I still get notifications of new followers every day. Could it really be more people are un-following me than following me? And Nathan?
I’ve also been having a hard time following people back. I will follow people and my following number remains the same and it won’t register me as following them.