So I just ran into this problem and I was wondering if anyone knew the lemmy software well enough to answer this. I’m seeing different stats on communities depending on which instance I view it from, and I don’t know what the true statistics are.
Using a community I moderate ( /c/maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world ) as an example:
If i view the sidebar from this link: https://lemmy.world/c/maliciouscompliance
It says 91 users / day, 143 users / week, 2.19K subscribers
But if I view it from this link: https://lemmy.ml/c/maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world
It says 42 users / day, 85 users / week, 45 subscribers.
I’m assuming the user count is based on that specific instance, and subscriber count when viewing from another instance is based on subscribers from that instance only (so 45 subscribers using lemmy.ml accounts). But is the subscriber count from the “home” instance the true aggregation of all subscribers across the fediverse, or subscribers from that instance?
Yes, AFAIK those stats are from each instance.
And as far as I can see, yes, the ones in the instance were the community is hosted are across the fediverese.
In my instance all communities from other instances only have 1 subscriber since I’m the only user.
And the community I created in here has a count of 4 subscribers.