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.
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.
ah so that's why I've been seeing conflicting upvote counts. Thats good to know thanks!
What? It's your post? The fediverse is so small lol.
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.