On Reddit, when a comment is removed or deleted, it still shows up in the comment count. You will see an interesting post with comments, but when you open it you’ll see that it’s actually empty. This is probably done for shadowban reasons, like the vote fuzzing in the other post?
On Lemmy the count gets updated. I like that
Yea kinda annoying, but the most irritating for me was karma counts all over the place because of “algorithms”