When I search up a community in, for example, lemmy.world and lemmy.ml, the subscriber counts differ from each other. Are the subscriber counts of communities viewed from a instance only valid for that instance?

  • @Thekingoflorda
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    311 months ago

    Could you edit your post to include the question in the title. See rule 1 for more information (:

    • @AsudoxOP
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      111 months ago

      Done. Thanks for informing.

  • @Imperor
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    811 months ago

    I have noticed the same and have come to the conclusion that, yes. The subscriber and follower counts are instance specific.

  • @[email protected]
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    811 months ago

    Yes, it does seems to be the count of subscribers for the community on that instance. If you want to see the total number of subscribers to the community, you go to the community’s instance (e.g. clicking the !x@y link under the community’s name@instance) and look at the number.

    • @AsudoxOP
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      311 months ago

      Well then, I guess this can be easily fixed by fetching the total sub counts from the local instance instead.