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?
4 Comments
god@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 3y
Yes. You see how many are subscribed from the instance you're viewing from.
MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y
Thank you for clearing that up!
OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 3y
I think it is based on comments+posts so there's alot of lurkers
MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y
There are also numbers for comments and posts which are out of wack. It makes sense that it’s just the instance numbers.