So I’m assuming the duplicate communities are communities of the same exact name in different instances/server. Is anyone else finding this somewhat confusing?
Is there a way to find/pick the “right” one, or should it just be based on whichever has the most users?
New to Fediverse (here and Mastodon), still trying to wrap my head around the whole thing.
moreover, the number of subscribers you see in search result represents subscribers from your instance only. It is very noticeable when you on a small instance. I.e. this number is not a solid criteria either.
I didn’t know this – cheers!
What about this website I’ve been using?
https://browse.feddit.de/
Is that a bug? It would be helpful to see a total number sometimes.
I do not know. For me this looks like a side effect of federation: you gen data from your instance, and it has info about local subscribers only. Anyways, the name of this value is misleading, this is for sure.
If you’re looking through lemmy explorer, then you can see total number of subscribers.