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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've suggested one correction below, but I'm not sure this is right, either.

I have an instance with just me, yet I see thousands of subscribers. I think what is happening is the count is the number of users who have federated info on the instance. (This is an educated guess, I have not investigated the code).

The theory is it's counting users in your local DB that have comments/likes/posts in the instance's local version of the federated community.

In this case, the accurate count of users is the originating instance.