Subscriber Numbers, are they instance based? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hello! I’m newer to Lemmy and trying to figure out all the communities. I found a page where I can browse communities (https://browse.feddit.de/), but the subscriber numbers on that site are totally different than what I see when I search for the community in Wefwef.

For example, this community shows a subscriber count of over 17k on the site above, but when I search in Wefwef, I see a much smaller subscriber count. Why is it different? Is Wefwef only counting subscribers on my instance?

Thanks for any information?

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[-] OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I think it is based on comments+posts so there's alot of lurkers

[-] MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

There are also numbers for comments and posts which are out of wack. It makes sense that it’s just the instance numbers.

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