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?
I have noticed the same and have come to the conclusion that, yes. The subscriber and follower counts are instance specific.
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.
Well then, I guess this can be easily fixed by fetching the total sub counts from the local instance instead.
Could you edit your post to include the question in the title. See rule 1 for more information (:
Done. Thanks for informing.