Yeah, like you I was also on my trip to nepal which was about a week, I didn't upload any articles neither I read or engaged with people on the platform.
But I was gaining around 2-3 followers everyday, even one of those subscribed me. But one thing to be to noted you're right - not reading amd emgaging with others gradually decreased my reach.
My latest article about a Canva Alternative received no views whole day from internal readers - literally '0' views 🙄,
but later anyhow I posted on some fb groups then hardly it reached around 20 views 😂.
I also made a post on Linkedin but from there "no views".
Btw I followed you and sent you connection request on Linkedin, make sure to check it, its always better to connect with like minded people on Linkedin.
Then exams also came over the head due to which I am temporarily closing my publising work now but soon I will start with a bang.
Btw books are calling me, bye 👋