Answer 1

Well Check whether your code is public or not.

Number of followers affect number of likes you get on your code/comments etc. Thus popularity matters in number of likes.

To ease this thing, you should advertise you code in "Advertising Threads".

Note: Don't spam your code anywhere else, only advertise in advertising threads and your feed post.

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