Hi, a post was just deleted asking about how and why the subscriber counts were different between instances. This seems to be a post that would help many understand the differences between Lemmy and non-federated networks, and quality content. It was not a support request, and fit into the first category of bullets above. Can this action be reversed and more clarity placed on rule 3 for users and mods (if needed)? Thank you.
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For posterity, the post in reference is this
Why are community subscriber counts different when watched from different instances?
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?
i'm having trouble understanding how this isn't a support request. It's a (Why|How) <confusion with lemmy that has a single answer>
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. This seems to be a post that would help many understand
Yeah, all the support posts are like this. We get the same five over and over, but this community is not for support. I wouldn't keep questions about knitting in [email protected] because they are helpful. This is simply not the place, unfortunately.
Why do you think it's not a support post?
except for supporting our trans comrades π