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lemmy_support·Lemmy Supportbyhydralisk

Why are the community stats wildly different when viewing from another instance?

For example, when viewing !kde here on .ml (which is the home instance, if that's the right term), it shows

and when viewing through another instance such as beehaw it shows

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I believe because from any instance other than the hosting instance, it shows stats for your instance only. So the 17/users a day you're seeing are all beehaw users, but the 21/users a day you see on lemmy.ml is everyone that follows that community

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That makes sense. Just a bit confusing, because it can make communities look inactive and put people off of subscribing when going through the explore tab for example.

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Yeah, there should really be a way to see the "total subscribers" and other stats for the total number of users from every instance instead of just your own. It could perhaps be a setting that lets you choose between seeing the total stats, stats related to your instance, and local stats.

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