It works as expected reading chats without Followers Mode.
I’m not trying to send messages, just read.
Do I have to ‘follow’ my bot to dedicated channel? If so, how do I do that?
it should last I checked, following isn’t required to read a followers only chat.
What/how are you trying to read chat?
IRC or eventsub?
Which channel?
Whats the error being returned if any?
Shit, I’m sorry. During answering your question I found out I’ve tried to connect to invalid channel, bc of typo 