Why are community subscriber counts different when watched from different instances?

JohnnyLX91@lemmy.zip to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 21 points –

I created two accounts on two different instances and all the communities I see have different subscriber counts depending from which account I look. Why does that happen and how can I see the real subscriber count?

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Why did you formulate it so complex? 😂

The subscribers are from your local instance. The end.

But is this true?

If member 1@A subscribes to B/c/C instead of A/c/C then will B's subscriber count include 1@A?

If that's true you would have to say: The subscribers displayed are those subscribed to that instance, regardless of where their account exists.

Which would mean the most accurate count would be the original community.