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.

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    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

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      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).

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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

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      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).

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    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.

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      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.

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

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    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)

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    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 😅

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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 (that arent overloaded) 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.

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    This is an interesting problem with federation by design. I do wonder if there’s some space to create a pipeline type application that shares this kind of data. Or an integration with the site you listed.

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    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.

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    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 :)

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    For all the problems with Reddit, I can see there being so many barriers to entry on here that will keep a lot of people from ever using or switching to Lemmy. Hope this gets ironed out.

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      Yeah, the way instances are not that well aware of other instances is a big barrier. In particular, it’s extra difficult to be the first in your instance to subscribe to a community. And the “all” feed in small instances sucks because it only includes what people on your instance have subscribed to.

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      Imagine the guys developing Lemmy. For years this was a fun hobby project and all of a sudden Reddit decides to implode giving you magnitudes more users and servers requesting changes.

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        Eh, I think discussing potential improvement ideas isn’t harmful, as long as it’s done respectfully. IMO, that’s how you figure out the best improvements, with people sharing different perspectives/opinions/etc. Most of the discussion I’ve seen about Lemmy so far has been like that, not demanding changes or being rude to the developers (in fact, most of the sentiment I’ve seen towards the developers/hosts of instances has been super positive, which is great). I don’t think that folks entering the community should feel unwelcome to voice their opinions, even if others might disagree or those in charge don’t choose to make those changes in the end. But seeing folks talking about these things and seeing the number of people in support or against something might help someone in charge realize that maybe some change or update would actually be really beneficial to their site, and end up helping them make something their even more proud of. Although, I can imagine a huge influx of people to any site like this, along with the sudden boom in corresponding discussions, is pretty crazy to deal with if you’re the creator(s) of said site.

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      I actually think some technological hurdle is a good thing. If it’s a little difficult to join, that will act as its own filter to keep the laziest and lowest effort people away.