this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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YSK - for all the things that can make your life easier!

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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

tfw kbin communities aren't listed. rip.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Are you sure? I don't think so. It shows users with data on the instance. A one subscriber instance will still show hundreds or thousands depending on how much federated content there is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

For me on my small instance, this YSK community shows 30ish subscribers but 2000 active users per month.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This had me confused for a while and I eventually decided it had to be this. Glad to have it confirmed!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Hmm the number I see on that page is lower than the number it shows me in the lemmy UI

feelsbadman?

[–] quinten 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In fact, the subscriber count on c/Games is on lemmy.world itself 8.67K and on lemmyverse.net 7.9K. What gives?

[–] Secret300 3 points 1 year ago

Good to know

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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 😅

[–] RBWells 2 points 1 year ago

Huh. I have 140-something showing as subscribed on c/cocktails and maybe 15 participating actively in a way I can see (commenting or posting) but it doesn't even exist in that lemmyverse link. Just an empty community called "cocktail" and a midwest social one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think it's a good idea to sum these statistics, but not for all instances (as it will be super easy to hijack with fake instances). Admin should manually select instances they trust and get the subscribed count summed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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)

[–] _MoveSwiftly 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 :)

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

Oops my bad, I'll update the post

[–] dimlo -3 points 1 year ago

Somehow decentralisation is bad and we need centralisation to make a thriving ecosystem

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