cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/5674368
The number of subscribers listed in the sidebar is only the number of users from YOUR instance that are subscribed. This might make you feel like a community is 'small' or 'dead' when it actually isn't.
I also started to forget this till I was playing with the shields.io badges earlier and the numbers didn't match up.
Here are some examples:
- My instance will see 310 subscribers
- This instance will see 22.6K subscribers
- My instance will see 6.03K subscribers
- This instance will see 1.49K subscribers
Now my question is, what's an accurate way to see the total number of subscribers? Is it in the home instance for a particular community?
If so, it might be worth adding the badges to the sidebars.
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To do this quickly, go to https://shields.io/badges/lemmy and enter:
[email protected]for communitylemmyfor logoTotal Subscribersfor label- modify the colors and style as you like
You can also modify the community and instance here and paste it in:
swap the fediverse%40lemmy.world portion
I’m not even willing to visit shields·io¹ because it’s a Cloudflare site.
I would oppose cluttering the sidebar with 100+ stats. Ideally there would be just 1 line:
subscribers: 310/30.6K (local/fed)If someone wants subscribers per instance detail, that should require some deep clicking around or a dedicated site that keeps track of that.
BTW, #Lemmy has lemmyverse.net (though I think the subscriber counts are misleading there too). What does #Kbin have for finding communities… anyone know? #askFedi
footnotes:
I didn’t know it was a Cloudflare site, but I was happy to see it’s not running Google’s hardware fingerprinting Ajax scripts that I dislike more than Cloudflare services.