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?
Someone correct me if I’m wrong but here’s how I understand it:
Say you have two instances A and B that are federated together, and you have a community C in B.
If you look at C from within B, the subscriber count will give you the number of subscribers from B and will ignore the ones from other instances.
If you look at C@B from within A, you will see this time the number of subscribers who have their accounts on A.
Why did you formulate it so complex? 😂
The subscribers are from your local instance. The end.
math nerds always love introducing notation 😁
But is this true?
If member 1@A subscribes to B/c/C instead of A/c/C then will B’s subscriber count include 1@A?
If that’s true you would have to say: The subscribers displayed are those subscribed to that instance, regardless of where their account exists.
Which would mean the most accurate count would be the original community.
I don’t understand what you’re saying? So you mean if a user from instance A subscribed to the community through instance B’s website instead of A’s?
Is there a way then to see all subscribers from all instances?
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.
deleting this; see ask_lemmy rule 3
Why? This isn’t a support request, it’s clarification, and good content.
