This also confuses me. I can sort of understand and make sense of it that feddit.de show a lower subscriber count. It means that’s the number of users from feddit.de who subscribed to fitness@lemmy.world. I don’t know why anyone would care for that specific information, but okay.
The real confusion regards the hosting instance. Does the subscriber count on https://lemmy.world/c/fitness@lemmy.world show (1) only the subscribers from lemmy.world, or does it (2) include all the subscribers from other instances, too?
If it’s #1, then how can we see the total subscriber count? Why would anyone care for any other figure?
I’d prefer if it’s #2. My complaint in this case would be it is confusing to have different calculations for the same display.
I wish the instance hosting a community would calculate the number of total subscribers, notify all subscribing instances of that number, and they all display the same.
yes. I assume that this is technically driven feature - an instance has information about local users subscribed to federated community and shows it. However, for me as a user this, at best, an is additional information.
Anyways, my “rant” is: the number is rather misleading and here we are guess what does it actually mean - we do not know. BTW, it could easily be that lemmy.world also shows local subscribers only.
This also confuses me. I can sort of understand and make sense of it that feddit.de show a lower subscriber count. It means that’s the number of users from feddit.de who subscribed to fitness@lemmy.world. I don’t know why anyone would care for that specific information, but okay.
The real confusion regards the hosting instance. Does the subscriber count on https://lemmy.world/c/fitness@lemmy.world show (1) only the subscribers from lemmy.world, or does it (2) include all the subscribers from other instances, too?
If it’s #1, then how can we see the total subscriber count? Why would anyone care for any other figure?
I’d prefer if it’s #2. My complaint in this case would be it is confusing to have different calculations for the same display.
I wish the instance hosting a community would calculate the number of total subscribers, notify all subscribing instances of that number, and they all display the same.
yes. I assume that this is technically driven feature - an instance has information about local users subscribed to federated community and shows it. However, for me as a user this, at best, an is additional information.
Anyways, my “rant” is: the number is rather misleading and here we are guess what does it actually mean - we do not know. BTW, it could easily be that lemmy.world also shows local subscribers only.