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Your communities might be a lot larger than you think! (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The number of subscribers listed in the sidebar is only the number of users from YOUR instance that are subscribed. This might make you feel like a community is 'small' or 'dead' when it actually isn't.

I also started to forget this till I was playing with the shields.io badges earlier and the numbers didn't match up.

Here are some examples:

[email protected]

  • My instance will see 310 subscribers
  • This instance will see 22.6K subscribers

[email protected]

  • My instance will see 6.03K subscribers
  • This instance will see 1.49K subscribers

Now my question is, what's an accurate way to see the total number of subscribers? Is it in the home instance for a particular community?

If so, it might be worth adding the badges to the sidebars.

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To do this quickly, go to https://shields.io/badges/lemmy and enter:

  • [email protected] for community
  • lemmy for logo
  • Total Subscribers for label
  • modify the colors and style as you like

You can also modify the community and instance here and paste it in:

![](https://img.shields.io/lemmy/fediverse%40lemmy.world?logo=lemmy&label=Total%20Subscribers)

swap the fediverse%40lemmy.world portion

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think this is entirely true, I think the number of subscribers is just not perfectly synced. My instance doesn't even allow signups, I just have my single admin account on there, but the communities have quite a few subscribers

https://lemmy.mods4ever.com/communities

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Interesting, I assumed it just showed the local numbers. What do you see when looking at [email protected] for example?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You just have to view it on the community's home instance. From my instance it says 36, but from

https://lemmy.ca/c/canada

It says 6.03k

The badges are a pretty good idea though

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For me, it shows 1 subscriber, 1.4k users per month.

It seems to be entirely dependent on the instance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is nice, I just added them to both of my communities

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Looks good!

A difference of 14 users to the full 626 users :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a great idea! I didn't know about shields.io. Just added it to [email protected]

I changed the link a little from the one you posted. Mine is:

[![Subscriber Count](https://img.shields.io/lemmy/celeste%40lemmy.ca?logo=lemmy&label=Subscribers)](https://lemmy.ca/c/celeste)

Subscriber Count

  • I added alt text (so if the image doesn't load, or people are using screen readers, they can still understand what it is),
  • changed 'Total Subscribers' to just 'Subscribers',
  • and made the badge a link to the community in the original instance, so anyone wondering why the numbers don't match up can click the badge to see where the number's coming from.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Looks good :) Those changes make sense

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah i post on a french community, and i was surprised to receive 160+ upvotes on a post about AOC calling for climate action. I assumed my post was propagated to international instances. Pretty cool.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think this is right? My instance has 6 communities, all of them has more subscribers than the instance has users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

no change in users in my community. mhmm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's more for users from any instance that isn't your own

For example, I only see "7 subscribers" instead of the 390 or so actual subscribers. So adding the badge will let people know there are a lot more people there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

oic thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Remember there are tools to sync an account to another instance so that you can make backups. This will count my backups as additional subscribers to your niche communities if I’m subscribed.