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.
People joining those large communities from other instances isn’t a problem though, right?
I meant a shared user count for communities when viewed from any instance; if anything it seems like that would make the less populated instances seem more ‘active’ and attract new users more.