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.
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.
Being a mod doesn’t change anything. If the community is from your instance it will be accurate. If not, in the sidebar under the name of the community there is a link to visit the community on the site of the home instance. You can click that to see the community on it’s home site amd that will show the accurate count.
Subscriber count isn’t really that helpful though, better to look at the active user coints, which seem to be mostly accurate regardless of which instance you are viewing from.
Oh, that’s a shame :(
I would’ve recommended mods announcing the amount of their total subscribers in milestones. But at least it’s more accurate in measuring the amount of active users who actually engage in the community!
The main / 1st mod (i.e. the creator) is likely to have created the community on their own instance, they will therefore usually see the true count.
You can always go to the hone instance site and look at the community there if you want to see. There’s a link to the community on the home site underneath the community name when you look at it from your own instance.