This authority you mention above - I take it it's not the Lord and Savior you also mention in the article - so who was it? Because that point of who is actually following us - has been a bone stuck in my craw forever. I have asked and asked of the medium peeps - do people get notified? And in response I get info about life and Medium's lunch room décor - basically they avoid the question. I think it's a platform thing. Vocal has equal skills in never answering a question exactly- they just nibble around the edges. I can check off one of my bucket-list items with this one. Cheers.