I open same community directly on Lemmy.world and via feddit.de. Number of subscribers are very different.
Why?
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[Two screenshots of the ‘fitness’ community are shown. The first has the name ‘Lemmy.world’ in the upper left corner of the page, and the second has the name ‘Feddit’ in the upper left corner. Both names are underlined in red. The community name ‘Fitness’ is circled in red on both images, as well as the subscriber count for each community. The image on the left (Lemmy.world) lists 1.1k subscribers. The image on the right (Feddit) displays 18 subscribers.]
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A bit late, but the number of subscribed users a community has you see on one instance is the number of subscribers to said community on this specific instance.
E.g. On this fitness community, there is 1.1k subscribers that come from lemmy.world, and 18 that come from feddit.de.
You can see the real amount of subscribers a community has on the Lemmy Community Browser.
Yes, still thank you. How does the browser calculate the total? Does it really asks every single instance and calculate the sum?
This also confuses me. I can sort of understand and make sense of it that feddit.de show a lower subscriber count. It means that’s the number of users from feddit.de who subscribed to fitness@lemmy.world. I don’t know why anyone would care for that specific information, but okay.
The real confusion regards the hosting instance. Does the subscriber count on https://lemmy.world/c/fitness@lemmy.world show (1) only the subscribers from lemmy.world, or does it (2) include all the subscribers from other instances, too?
If it’s #1, then how can we see the total subscriber count? Why would anyone care for any other figure?
I’d prefer if it’s #2. My complaint in this case would be it is confusing to have different calculations for the same display.
I wish the instance hosting a community would calculate the number of total subscribers, notify all subscribing instances of that number, and they all display the same.
yes. I assume that this is technically driven feature - an instance has information about local users subscribed to federated community and shows it. However, for me as a user this, at best, an is additional information.
Anyways, my “rant” is: the number is rather misleading and here we are guess what does it actually mean - we do not know. BTW, it could easily be that lemmy.world also shows local subscribers only.
My guess is it’s showing the subscribers per instance rather than across all instances, as lemmy.world is fairly large where as feddit isn’t as big.
