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Subscriber Numbers, are they instance based? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Thank you for clearing that up!

[–] OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

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