There are a lot of communities I haven’t subscribed to since there were only 1-2 other users. I’ve also noticed that some communities started out strong and seemed to practically die.

But today I was looking for a community and searched through lemmy.world instead of my own instance. Turns out the subscribers never left - I just can’t see them. For example:

  • if I search [email protected] using my home instance on liftoff, I see 2 subscribers
  • if I look up the same community using lemmy.world, I see 58 subscribers
  • if I look up the community in Google (not logged in), I see 58 subscribers
  • if I click on the [email protected] link in my own post, I see 110 subscribers
  • if I search using my home instance for new communities, say [email protected] , there’s 1 subscriber and no posts
  • if I access [email protected] through my saved committees list, I can see posts

I’ve noticed the same issues on !lemmy.world and !sh.itjust.works , but I can only say that for sure because I know those instances should have more traffic. I don’t think my instance has defederated with theirs.

Does anyone know of this is an issue with liftoff, lemmy, or simple defederation?

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    Is the sub count on the home instance only for that instance or does it actually aggregate counts from all remote instances too?

    • @WhoRoger
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      21 year ago

      From my testing, it aggregates from remote instances too.