You can use https://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.
Thank you for posting this. I had no idea and always wondered why the numbers were so different between my accounts.
Are comments affected similarly? If I open this post from different accounts on different instances, the number of comments changes.
Or is that a sync problem?
comments and upvotes work similarly in the fact that only users from federated instances will show up.
But also yes there is a short delay before comments sync in general too aside from the above fact.
Really bends the idea of a comment “having” so many likes or whatever.
Reminds me of a talk Tom Scott gave once about being able to ban people in real life. He imagined an implant which distorted your perception and would just photoshop out someone in real time, you wouldn’t hear them, you wouldn’t see them, you would subconsciously step around them without noticing. Something entirely different could be taking place around you and you’d never know.
Sounds straight from a black mirror episode.
I haven’t looked into Lemmy/fediverse philosophy so I don’t know how viable it is, but I’d love to see some variant of “X subscribers total on known servers (y from local)” in the future.
Well, I don’t really pay attention to and I’m sure they’ll make browser extensions at some point. So not even remotely close to a priority.
I’d be happy to see it divided by total users in an instance; 21.7% of the users on bands.music are subscribed to Beatles, 1.3% are subscribed to Soundgarden, so on.
Are you sure? I don’t think so. It shows users with data on the instance. A one subscriber instance will still show hundreds or thousands depending on how much federated content there is.
Yes. I’m on a small instance and some communities have 3-4 subscribers. Those are the big ones lmao
For me on my small instance, this YSK community shows 30ish subscribers but 2000 active users per month.
Yeah, just added a bunch of comms and it often showed 0 subscribers while I know from lemmyexplorer there’s way more.
Are the mods of those communities able to see the total amount of people subscribed from every instance, though?
Being a mod doesn’t change anything. If the community is from your instance it will be accurate. If not, in the sidebar under the name of the community there is a link to visit the community on the site of the home instance. You can click that to see the community on it’s home site amd that will show the accurate count.
Subscriber count isn’t really that helpful though, better to look at the active user coints, which seem to be mostly accurate regardless of which instance you are viewing from.
Oh, that’s a shame :(
I would’ve recommended mods announcing the amount of their subscribers in milestones. But at least it’s more accurate in measuring the amount of active users who actually engage in the community!
I’m a mod of a tiny community and I can’t work out how to view my subscribers. I’m on the lemmy.world instance though and nothing seems to be working like it should today.
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 😅
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)
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 :)
Oops my bad, I’ll update the post
Are there plans to display the actual numer or is it just not possible becaus of the underlying protocol?
It’s definitely possible at least, some solutions are suggested in this github issue
Hmm the number I see on that page is lower than the number it shows me in the lemmy UI
feelsbadman?
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.
I’ve posted a feature request on the Lemmy GitHub to fix this, I hope they do something
D’oh, my Lemmy Explorer count is three lower than my sh.itjust.works count. 😔
This was good information, I was wondering about the low number in some communities but now I know why.
This had me confused for a while and I eventually decided it had to be this. Glad to have it confirmed!!
