Your communities might be a lot larger than you think!
cross-posted from: 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:
- My instance will see 310 subscribers
- This instance will see 22.6K subscribers
- 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.
https://img.shields.io/lemmy/fediverse%40lemmy.world?logo=lemmy&label=Total%20Subscribers (!fediverse)
https://img.shields.io/lemmy/asklemmy%40lemmy.ml?logo=lemmy&label=Total%20Subscribers (!asklemmy)
https://img.shields.io/lemmy/games%40sh.itjust.works?logo=lemmy&label=Total%20Subscribers (!games)
https://img.shields.io/lemmy/canada%40lemmy.ca?logo=lemmy&label=Total%20Subscribers (!canada)
https://img.shields.io/lemmy/communitypromo%40lemmy.ca?logo=lemmy&label=Total%20Subscribers (!communitypromo)
https://img.shields.io/lemmy/houseplants%40mander.xyz?logo=lemmy&label=Total%20Subscribers (!houseplants)
To do this quickly, go to shields.io/badges/lemmy and enter:
-
[email protected]
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:
<span style="color:#323232;">![](https://img.shields.io/lemmy/fediverse%40lemmy.world?logo=lemmy&label=Total%20Subscribers)
</span>
swap the fediverse%40lemmy.world
portion
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