When I search up a community in, for example, lemmy.world and lemmy.ml, the subscriber counts differ from each other. Are the subscriber counts of communities viewed from a instance only valid for that instance?
Yes, it does seems to be the count of subscribers for the community on that instance. If you want to see the total number of subscribers to the community, you go to the community’s instance (e.g. clicking the !x@y link under the community’s name@instance) and look at the number.
Imperor@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have noticed the same and have come to the conclusion that, yes. The subscriber and follower counts are instance specific.