As it is now, it’s quite inconvenient to not be able to see a community’s actual subscriber count from an instance and instead see how many are subscribed to it from the current instance; makes it hard to judge their activity from a search, and is confusing for new users.
A shared user count directly in lemmy would be very useful.
It’d be nice to do something similar for Mastodon.
for us lemmy only users, mind explaining what they do on Mastodon?
Mastodon doesn’t quite have a “popular toots” tab, and until recently there wasn’t a list of recommended accounts from other instances. What it does have is a list of popular hashtags.