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?
Yes. You see how many are subscribed from the instance you’re viewing from.
Thank you for clearing that up!
I think it is based on comments+posts so there’s alot of lurkers
There are also numbers for comments and posts which are out of wack. It makes sense that it’s just the instance numbers.
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?)
i forgot to mention: the local instance where the community is from should record all subscribers from all instances i believe.
