YSK: Subscriber count on communities only show the numbers of users subscribed from your specific instance. The real number might be much larger than you think. - eviltoast

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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    1 year ago

    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).