I created this community yesterday. A few folks joined, and now the count sits at 46 subscribers with <46 local subscribers on any Lemmy instance I visit (here or here for instance). But on Piefed, it's 16 subscribers and 17 local 🙂

This is not new either. I've never seen the subscriber count work properly in Piefed.

Yeah, this is a known issue: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/1225

I remember looking at this one night, but couldn't track it down. In general, this seems to just be a UI thing and subscribers are being tracked correctly for the purposes of federation.

Funny, now that you mention it, I checked in the actual subscribers' list, and that seems correct. But I notice that a majority of the subscribers are bots. Does Piefed only show real people? I haven't counted non-bots to see if there are indeed 16 of them, I need to catch my bus to work in a minute 🙂 But that'd be a neat trick if it did.

At some point we talked about not having bots count to overall subscriber count, but I don't know if its implemented yet.

I think it is - I was the originator of the issue... I brought it up because it was getting difficult to sort out the bots from real subscribers to my community.

Here was the issue: Bot Counts in Community Stats - And it was implemented in the 1.4 release.

I counted 14 accounts whose names seem to be real people. Piefed reports 16 users. Assuming the regex to detect bots missed a couple, it would appear to be implemented.

Nice! This is actually useful. Although I suppose it doesn't matter for big communities, where the percentage of bots is small compared to the total number of users.

So that's one of the mysteries solved 🙂

It seems fine to me: