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:

!fediverse@lemmy.world

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

!canada@lemmy.ca

  • 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.

(!fediverse@lemmy.world)

(!asklemmy@lemmy.ml)

(!games@sh.itjust.works)

(!canada@lemmy.ca)

(!communitypromo@lemmy.ca)

(!houseplants@mander.xyz)

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

  • Voyager@psychedelia.inkEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    This is such a useful post.
    As a lemmy newbie, I see that there is a save functionality, but is there a way to tag posts like these so I can reference them in the future?

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Do you mean so that you can search for it in your saved posts more easily? If so I don’t know of any tools for that yet. I’ve been saving things to Pocket when I want something like that.

      Back when I was using Reddit, I set up IFTTT to add my saved posts to a spreedsheet on my google drive. It stopped working a few months ago and I never fixed it. You could try something like that, but it might be easier to just save it with some other service (bookmarks or Pocket type services)