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Subscriber Numbers, are they instance based? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by MaybeItWorks to c/[email protected]

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Hello! I’m newer to Lemmy and trying to figure out all the communities. I found a page where I can browse communities (https://browse.feddit.de/), but the subscriber numbers on that site are totally different than what I see when I search for the community in Wefwef.

For example, this community shows a subscriber count of over 17k on the site above, but when I search in Wefwef, I see a much smaller subscriber count. Why is it different? Is Wefwef only counting subscribers on my instance?

Thanks for any information?

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[–] god 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. You see how many are subscribed from the instance you're viewing from.

[–] MaybeItWorks 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for clearing that up!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it is based on comments+posts so there's alot of lurkers

[–] MaybeItWorks 1 points 1 year ago

There are also numbers for comments and posts which are out of wack. It makes sense that it’s just the instance numbers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You could also check on https://lemmyverse.net/communities - sometimes it takes a bit to update sub numbers, but they come from whatever the instance that the community is on reports and knows about. (It should include remote subscribers too afaik?)

[–] god 1 points 1 year ago

i forgot to mention: the local instance where the community is from should record all subscribers from all instances i believe.