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.

  • @[email protected]OP
    20•1 year ago

    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.

    • stebo
      6•1 year ago

      ah so that’s why I’ve been seeing conflicting upvote counts. Thats good to know thanks!