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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lawyerz@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

So I'm assuming the duplicate communities are communities of the same exact name in different instances/server. Is anyone else finding this somewhat confusing?

Is there a way to find/pick the "right" one, or should it just be based on whichever has the most users?

New to Fediverse (here and Mastodon), still trying to wrap my head around the whole thing.

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[-] gelberhut@lemdro.id 28 points 1 year ago

moreover, the number of subscribers you see in search result represents subscribers from your instance only. It is very noticeable when you on a small instance. I.e. this number is not a solid criteria either.

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

I didn't know this – cheers!

[-] anon_water@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

What about this website I’ve been using?

https://browse.feddit.de/

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Is that a bug? It would be helpful to see a total number sometimes.

[-] gelberhut@lemdro.id 6 points 1 year ago

I do not know. For me this looks like a side effect of federation: you gen data from your instance, and it has info about local subscribers only. Anyways, the name of this value is misleading, this is for sure.

[-] HangingFruit@czech-lemmy.eu 2 points 1 year ago

If you’re looking through lemmy explorer, then you can see total number of subscribers.

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