The thing that makes this harder with the followe base is that they are not permanent. Once you have some followers, you can't be sure that they won't unfollow you at one moment because you did not had the same opinion as them in some article of yours, or that they will simply quit Steemit because of various reasons, including the low payout on their posts.
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Your concerns are valid, but you have to consider the greater point.
While it is true that may happen to some followers, it is not going to happen to all followers. Even having just 10 devoted followers to your content who upvote your posts makes a big diffference. When they grow in steem power, their votes grow with them and become more powerful for you too.
You have to look at this long term.
I do try to look at this, even though sometimes it is demotivating. I have invested a half of year posting or commenting every day and build a follower base of over 600 people, but with only about 5 of them pretty active. This gives me 0.2 $ per post so anybody can see that I am not making this for money. I've never powered down anything and also I have sent to bittrex 30 Steem just to see how these things work.
Sometimes I am writing because I feel that I have interesting things to share and other times I do it maybe from loneliness :))
I guess I would be satisfied if I had a lot of followers to read my articles and share their opinions, but at least I have a few that are active and who are really good people. It is better to have fewer followers that really care for you than to have a lot that are not interested :)
How is your witness node going?
Thanks for asking. Its slowly getting up there. I'm quite happy on where it has gone in ranking over the last 5 days. Still a long road though and a lot of work. Getting votes is not easy.