Based on my calculations we should have at least 10,000 subscribers. It seems like the subscriber count only shows for whatever particular instance you are on, but adding together the subscriber count of the major instances exceeds 10,000.
There has been some great discussion so far with a lot of information on shows and books I’ve never heard of. I encourage everyone to make any science fiction related post they feel like. You don’t need to wait for someone else to make posts. 😅
I have some plans to attempt a very casual type of book club here. Understandably trying to follow along with a book club can be daunting or simply difficult to fit into the schedule so there is absolutely no obligations here. A week before the end of the month I plan on collecting the most discussed science fiction books from the monthly “What are you Reading?” thread and create a poll to vote on. This will be the “Book of the Month” and you can either read it or not read it as you please. Then at the end of the following month there will be a community sticky post to discuss it.
I also plan to use the federated book database site BookWyrm to track the books of the month at the following address. You can follow along by joining BookWyrm and following this user. This way other /c/sciencefiction users can find you as well. Of course all this information will also be here on lemmy.world /c/sciencefiction.
https://bookwyrm.social/user/ScienceFiction
Perhaps this will work out and perhaps not. It’s still mostly an experiment at this stage. Any feedback is appreciated.
Carry on science fiction friends.
It seems like the subscriber count only shows for whatever particular instance you are on, but adding together the subscriber count of the major instances exceeds 10,000.
Fwiw, the community sidebar in the community’s home instance shows a rough global subscriber count. So for this community that’s https://lemmy.world/c/sciencefiction which when opened in a browser rather than an app shows 9.81k… pretty close to 10k as you estimated.
One can pretty quickly verify that the community’s home instance shows more than the local subscribers by looking at small instances hosting bigger communities. For example, the instance sidebar at pathfinder.social shows less than 350 accounts on the server, but their biggest community at https://pathfinder.social/c/pf2general shows over 1.3k.subs.
Nice bit of info. Thank you.
Thanks for the update Izzy, book club sounds great! There’s not enough places in the world for me to talk about my enduring love of sci fi 😁
Love the idea of a book club. I want to get back to reading more but struggle to motivate myself sometimes so this would be great. Once I start a book I’m hooked though it’s a funny one.
Thanks for the heads-up on bookwyrm- just created an account.
Do we need an account there, or can we use our federated Lemmy accounts? I’ve not interacted with anything in the Fediverse except for Lemmy;
I’m still pretty new to the whole Fediverse thing. Does anyone know if I can follow this as a user on the lemmy.world instance? Or do I need to creat an account on bookwyrm.social?
I’m like 90% sure Lemmy and BookWyrm are not interoperable like that. I am not 100% sure though.
