If you go to c/homeimprovement@lemmy.world through midwest.social, it shows fewer subscribers in the sidebar than if you go straight to lemmy.world (https://midwest.social/c/homeimprovement@lemmy.world vs https://lemmy.world/c/homeimprovement). Also, there are posts that only show up when you look at c/homeimprovement@lemmy.world through the midwest.social instance, and are missing from the lemmy.world instance.
For example, this post: https://midwest.social/post/4242666 is nonexistent if you look at the homepage on lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/c/homeimprovement. However, you can see it from the homepage on midwest.social: https://midwest.social/c/homeimprovement@lemmy.world.
I don’t know what the issue is with the post missing. But in regards to sub count - current implementation only shows the number of subs from your instance. The home instance of the community is the only one that shows the real number.
I’m posting from lemmy.world now.
Interesting - I just checked again today and it’s showing up on lemmy.world
Unfortunately, I don’t see your post at c/homeimprovement@lemmy.world nor at lemmy.ml/c/homeimprovement@lemmy.world.
I noticed a lot of posts missing when visiting via midwest.social versus the native instance. I can’t remember if it was lemmy.world or something else, but it seems like this instance has federation problems.
@seahorse@midwest.social, you wanna maybe chime in here?
Many other instances are reporting this. We don’t know why it happens unfortunately.