You can use https://lemmyverse.net/ to check actual subscriber numbers.

Edit: Why YSK: New users of Lemmy can find the number low and think that a community is dead or inactive, when infact it might be a thriving place with a lot of activity.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    251 year ago

    Ahhhh that makes so much sense. I was wondering why some communities with a large number of active users only had like 3 subscribers.

    • stebo
      link
      fedilink
      101 year ago

      i sometimes wonder if it works the same for upvotes?

      • @[email protected]OP
        link
        fedilink
        231 year ago

        For upvotes it only shows upvotes from the instances your home instance is federated with, so for a smaller instance there’s a chance it has not the same big federation list as some more popular instances and thus show smaller upvote count.

        • stebo
          link
          fedilink
          61 year ago

          ah so that’s why I’ve been seeing conflicting upvote counts. Thats good to know thanks!

      • Muddybulldog
        link
        fedilink
        English
        81 year ago

        Upvotes should propagate across instances. With the current state of everything, not the least of which being congested servers across the ‘verse, it’s a bit of a crapshoot right now.