Hello, @[email protected] ! @michael (admin) here - Lemmy is decentralized, which means that communities that have the same name (such as "technology") can be located on multiple servers - each with their own subscribers and subscriber counts.
If you view the list of communities and click the "All" option, you'll see all the communities on all the servers with which yall.theatl.social's users have subscribed.
So this is more complexity than Reddit, of course. That's by design. For now, the use case I'm trying to cultivate on here is local/Atlanta stuff.
Going forward, there needs to be better content/user/community discovery through globally searchable lists and communities. This should be coming in short order, it seems, as others develop on this platform.