2 days ago (see 2) I posted something into the [email protected] community which got almost 1000 upvotes (see 1) while the user numbers for the last week are at 131 (see 3), this doesn’t add up. How can 131 users upvote almost 1000 times?

  • @aion
    3•1 year ago

    Disclaimer: I have not looked at how Lemmy calculates those numbers.

    I suspect this is a combination of multiple factors:

    • The stats could be averages over the last several days/weeks.
    • The stats could be estimates, not exact numbers.
    • The stats probably only account for people who look at the community directly.
    • People do not need to look at the community to upvote a post, people can upvote from the site-wide feed.