cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/5674368


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:

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

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  • 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:

  • myCommunity@example.com 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

  • Otter@lemmy.caOP
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    1 year ago

    Yea I wasn’t sure if it worked like RSS where you just send the posts out for whoever to catch, or if there’s some way for the home instance to count when a new person subscribes

    • Haui@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      But this makes the subscriber count kind of pointless imo. It’s kind of important to see how many people really subscribe.