You can use https://lemmyverse.net/ to check actual subscriber numbers.
Edit: Why YSK: New users of Lemmy can find the number low and think that a community is dead or inactive, when infact it might be a thriving place with a lot of activity.
You can use https://lemmyverse.net/ to check actual subscriber numbers.
Edit: Why YSK: New users of Lemmy can find the number low and think that a community is dead or inactive, when infact it might be a thriving place with a lot of activity.
I’ll probably never trust numbers in general on the Fediverse. Stuff how many upvotes a post or comment have or how many members a community has seem to fluctuate wildly depending if you’re viewing from your own instance or the original instance.
Had the same thing on Mastodon: a toot in your time line showed 5 boosts and when you clicked on it suddenly it was 400 boosts. Just seems impossible to gauge how popular something is.