I'm looking at communities on instances other than the one where I have my account (lemmy.world) so I can really spread my wings around in this space. When I look as an unauthenticated visitor at communities on, say lemmy.ml, the subscriber counts are considerably higher for local communities than how they are reported globally from lemmy.world. What accounts for this delta?

I might guess the sub counts from lemmy.world for non-local communities only account for subs "on loan" from the community you're checking from, but that might be too simple an explanation.

Whatever the explanation, it would be nice to see the sub counts both as they are accounted from the parent instance and as the number of subs coming from your own instance. I can make a feature request, but first I'd like to know how it works :)