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YSK: Subscriber count on communities only show the numbers of users subscribed from your specific instance. The real number might be much larger than you think.

You can use 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.

boots ,

New to Lemmy. I also found the stats confusing. I expected to see global community stats and for them to be synced between instances.

The current situation makes people think that Lemmy is basically empty 😅

bluejay ,

I actually ran into this while setting up this account. Made me triple check I was subbing to a community that was going to have any activity (first person from my instance to search it apparently)

_MoveSwiftly ,

Hello there, and welcome to our community! I hope you like it in here.

Could you please include some body text as to why should people know this, and how would that help them? It’s our second rule. Thank you :)

zinklog OP ,
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Oops my bad, I’ll update the post

mac12m99 ,

I think it’s a good idea to sum these statistics, but not for all instances (as it will be super easy to hijack with fake instances). Admin should manually select instances they trust and get the subscribed count summed.

Hikiru ,
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I’ve posted a feature request on the Lemmy GitHub to fix this, I hope they do something

snakesnakewhale ,

D’oh, my Lemmy Explorer count is three lower than my sh.itjust.works count. 😔

Ansalong ,

This had me confused for a while and I eventually decided it had to be this. Glad to have it confirmed!!

dimlo ,

Somehow decentralisation is bad and we need centralisation to make a thriving ecosystem

RBWells ,

Huh. I have 140-something showing as subscribed on c/cocktails and maybe 15 participating actively in a way I can see (commenting or posting) but it doesn’t even exist in that lemmyverse link. Just an empty community called “cocktail” and a midwest social one.

Secret300 ,

Good to know

Fluba ,
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I noticed this as well. The lemmyverse list of communities showed big numbers, but Lemmy.world would show maybe < 100. The way I saw to identify active communities (outside of your list) was to look at the posts themselves. Seeing the upvotes and comment numbers definitely let me know there were more than just my Instance being active.

jose1324 ,

This is a huge thing I didn’t know about. Lemmy really needs to show the full number. I’m on .world and even here everything seems really niche and small. It hurts perception hugely

qwop ,

Yeah, there currently seem to be a bunch of rough edges with Lemmy. Another is that iirc editing a comment increases the comment count shown on a post.

Nothing that can’t be fixed though, and it’s encouraging how good Lemmy feels already compared to reddit (for me at least).

qwop ,

Yeah, there currently seem to be a bunch of rough edges with Lemmy. Another is that iirc editing a comment increases the comment count shown on a post.

Nothing that can’t be fixed though, and it’s encouraging how good Lemmy feels already compared to reddit (for me at least).

lazyvar ,
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Another such rough edge is that comments sometimes get posted twice, like your comment Screenshot of two of the same comments showing up in the threadt

qwop ,

Haha, got a “network error” on my first attempt so clicked send again, I guess it did go through the first time after all :D

lazyvar ,
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Typical Lemmy experience, haha.

Honestly has its charms, gives me the feeling of nostalgia, like we’re back in the early 2000’s.

someguy3 ,

Whazzuuuppp.

jerkface ,
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AND MY AXE!

odium ,

Same thing happened to me on reddit official android app many times.

tunahanyilmaz ,
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A similar thing actually happens on Reddit. You can click the send button more than once if you’re quick enough. I saw it all the time.

SpezCanLigmaBalls ,
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I’ve only experienced this while using apps

derelict ,
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At a bare minimum it should be called ‘local subscribers’ to make that clear if there are technical reasons making a total number difficult

Rannoch ,

Well huh. I did not in fact know this, and was wondering why there were so few subscribers to most communities or even zero sometimes. Feels like changing this to include all subscribers would be really helpful?

henfredemars ,

This sounds like a bug to me. At a minimum, it should be renamed to local subscribers rather than imply that it’s the total count.

OtakuAltair ,
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This needs to be integrated into Lemmy asap; really hurts discoverability and makes comms look way smaller than they are to new users.

This, instance migration, and assigning new users to good general instances like lemm.ee or vlemmy.net upon registration (letting them change it of course) so they don’t need to know about instances would go a long way to being user friendly.

burningmatches ,

Instance-agnostic links to posts would be good too.

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