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YSK: Subscriber count on communities only show the numbers of users subscribed from your specific instance. The real number might be much larger than you think.

You can use https://lemmyverse.net/ to check actual subscriber numbers.

Edit: Why YSK: New users of Lemmy can find the number low and think that a community is dead or inactive, when infact it might be a thriving place with a lot of activity.

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  • Ahhhh that makes so much sense. I was wondering why some communities with a large number of active users only had like 3 subscribers.

    • i sometimes wonder if it works the same for upvotes?

      • For upvotes it only shows upvotes from the instances your home instance is federated with, so for a smaller instance there's a chance it has not the same big federation list as some more popular instances and thus show smaller upvote count.

      • Upvotes should propagate across instances. With the current state of everything, not the least of which being congested servers across the ‘verse, it’s a bit of a crapshoot right now.

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