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The subscriber count you see is how many on your instance have subscribed.
There are typically more, which is demonstrated by the screenshot you put up.
Ah thanks, it was quite confusing. Maybe a little note on the interface. Do you know where I could make this suggestion?
I expect that it has heen made. Even better would be for the actual number of subscribers, or at least an estimate, would be better.
I think the lemmy github page has an issue tracker that you can add it to. (Sorry on mobile)
Worth noting that some of this isn't always 💯 possible. If some instances have blocked other instances where users have interacted with a post, your numbers and their numbers will diverge. The host of the content generally will have the most complete numbers, but it might be possible for that to be wrong if the server doesn't have authorized fetch enabled (ie: server a has content, blocks server b, server c boosts the content but does not block c, c boosts/upvotes/favorites it. A now doesn't know about any metrics from server C, despite being the original source of content).