You can use https://lemmyverse.net/ to check actual subscriber numbers.

Edit: Why YSK: New users of Lemmy can find the number low and think that a community is dead or inactive, when infact it might be a thriving place with a lot of activity.

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    1 year ago

    I want to preface this by saying that I really don’t know anything about Lemmy, but I can see where subscriptions are managed by the subscribers servers in a federated situation: the community’s server might not even know who is subscribed to it since the subscribers server might be responsible for pulling data.

    But any individual subscribers server would know about other users on that server that are subscribed to that community