• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      That’s a really useful site.

      I’m not sure why it’s showing such a small number when I search for it using my instance. e.g. searching for “games” shows [email protected] has 83 subscribers, while your link shows 19,400. Is it just showing the number of subscribers from my instance on there, or some number when it was first found by my instance or what?

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        1 year ago

        Is it just showing the number of subscribers from my instance on there

        Yes, that’s exactly it. It’s an unfortunate product of how the backend works right now, as far as I understand it. I don’t think there is a way to see the total sum of subscribers to a community from all instances right now. I think the issue has been raised on GitHub, though.

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      1 year ago

      Okay. I’m going to be stupid and ask the basic question

      I’m on lemm.ee and my feed is interesting enough so if I fuck with it I could make it worse.

      But let’s say I want to see more of https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy (or something smaller) on my feed how do I do that?

      I was going to wait for an app and go from there. But I’m not sure which one has swam to the top of most recommended (I used rif on Reddit and enjoyed that)

      Edit: I’m going to try sync. I’ll work it out from that

      • Steal Wool@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Just subscribe to it and it will show up in your “subscribed” feed. Should be similar on sync.

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
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        1 year ago

        The best way right now is to use a heavily curated Subscribed feed. At some point in the future some kind of “Multireddit”-like functionality will probably be added, either through Lemmy itself or a 3rd-party app, which will make the frontpage experience better, but for now the best way is to use an app with good content filtering for the All page and combine it with a carefully built Subscribed page.