So I just searched for an alternative to r/SteamDeck and used the “all” comunity search from lemm.ee

The community with the most subscribers was sopuli.xyz/c/steamdeck and it showed as having 105 subscribers.

However when I use browse.feddit.de to search for it, it is listed as having 3379 subscribers.

Now when I enter that community with sopuli.xyz/c/steamdeck I see that it has 3.48K subscribers right now.
But when I enter it with lemm.ee/c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz it only shows 105 subscribers.

So my question is does that mean that it has 105 subscribers from lemm.ee and that count is all I see when entering from this instance?
If so, does that mean that I can’t search for communities based on subscriber count within lemm.ee directly?

(in this case I still made the right choice but I subscribed to many other instances based on the community search on lemm.ee that I now have to double check if those really are the biggest ones or just the ones with the most lemm.ee users subscribed)

Edit: subscriber count aside, I see more users/day and users/week etc when accessing it from lemm.ee, but the comment count is acutally less even though lemm.ee hasn’t any blocked instances and also isn’t blocked by any other instance.

https://imgur.com/0mkCjW0
(top=sopuli, bottom=lemmee)
This all doesn’t really add up for me.