The number of subscribers listed in the sidebar is only the number of users from YOUR instance that are subscribed. This might make you feel like a community is ‘small’ or ‘dead’ when it actually isn’t.
I also started to forget this till I was playing with the shields.io badges earlier and the numbers didn’t match up.
Here are some examples:
- My instance will see 310 subscribers
- This instance will see 22.6K subscribers
- My instance will see 6.03K subscribers
- This instance will see 1.49K subscribers
Now my question is, what’s an accurate way to see the total number of subscribers? Is it in the home instance for a particular community?
If so, it might be worth adding the badges to the sidebars.
To do this quickly, go to https://shields.io/badges/lemmy and enter:
myCommunity@example.comfor communitylemmyfor logoTotal Subscribersfor label- modify the colors and style as you like
You can also modify the community and instance here and paste it in:
swap the fediverse%40lemmy.world portion
Interesting, I assumed it just showed the local numbers. What do you see when looking at [email protected] for example?
You just have to view it on the community’s home instance. From my instance it says 36, but from
https://lemmy.ca/c/canada
It says 6.03k
The badges are a pretty good idea though
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
For me, it shows 1 subscriber, 1.4k users per month.
It seems to be entirely dependent on the instance.