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.
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.