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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.

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You can use https://lemmyverse.net/ to check actual subscriber numbers.

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jose1324@lemmy.world
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This is a huge thing I didn’t know about. Lemmy really needs to show the full number. I’m on .world and even here everything seems really niche and small. It hurts perception hugely

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qwop@programming.dev
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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).

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lazyvar@programming.dev
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Another such rough edge is that comments sometimes get posted twice, like your comment

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qwop@programming.dev
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Haha, got a “network error” on my first attempt so clicked send again, I guess it did go through the first time after all :D

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Tunahan Yılmaz@lemmy.world
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A similar thing actually happens on Reddit. You can click the send button more than once if you’re quick enough. I saw it all the time.

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SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world
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I’ve only experienced this while using apps

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derelict@lemmy.world
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At a bare minimum it should be called ‘local subscribers’ to make that clear if there are technical reasons making a total number difficult

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qwop@programming.dev
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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).

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Altair@vlemmy.net
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This needs to be integrated into Lemmy asap; really hurts discoverability and makes comms look way smaller than they are to new users.

This, instance migration, and assigning new users to good general instances (that arent overloaded) like lemm.ee or vlemmy.net upon registration (letting them change it of course) so they don’t need to know about instances would go a long way to being user friendly.

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burningmatches@feddit.uk
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Instance-agnostic links to posts would be good too.

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Rannoch@lemm.ee
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Well huh. I did not in fact know this, and was wondering why there were so few subscribers to most communities or even zero sometimes. Feels like changing this to include all subscribers would be really helpful?

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Hikiru@lemmy.world
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I’ve posted a feature request on the Lemmy GitHub to fix this, I hope they do something

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Zikeji@programming.dev
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I haven’t looked into Lemmy/fediverse philosophy so I don’t know how viable it is, but I’d love to see some variant of “X subscribers total on known servers (y from local)” in the future.

Well, I don’t really pay attention to and I’m sure they’ll make browser extensions at some point. So not even remotely close to a priority.

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agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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I’d be happy to see it divided by total users in an instance; 21.7% of the users on bands.music are subscribed to Beatles, 1.3% are subscribed to Soundgarden, so on.

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