You can use https://lemmyverse.net/ to check actual subscriber numbers.

Edit: Why YSK: New users of Lemmy can find the number low and think that a community is dead or inactive, when infact it might be a thriving place with a lot of activity.

  • Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Are comments affected similarly? If I open this post from different accounts on different instances, the number of comments changes.

    Or is that a sync problem?

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      1 year ago

      comments and upvotes work similarly in the fact that only users from federated instances will show up.

      But also yes there is a short delay before comments sync in general too aside from the above fact.