Why are community subscriber counts different when watched from different instances? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 year ago by JohnnyLX91@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I created two accounts on two different instances and all the communities I see have different subscriber counts depending from which account I look. Why does that happen and how can I see the real subscriber count?

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[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 year ago

But is this true?

If member 1@A subscribes to B/c/C instead of A/c/C then will B's subscriber count include 1@A?

If that's true you would have to say: The subscribers displayed are those subscribed to that instance, regardless of where their account exists.

Which would mean the most accurate count would be the original community.

this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023

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