Gregory's Server@bgtlover The issue is basically that very very few people use PeerTube with a viewer account. Most subscribers come from Mastodon (and I have some from Lemmy too) rather than PT itself.
But as with everything else, a PT account will only be discoverable for you on Mastodon once your server knows about it, so this post is attempting to get us followers from a wide range of instances to help federate us more places and hopefully snowball more organic followers from there.
@bgtlover p.s. to actually answer your question (🤦♀️) yes our subscriber numbers do count Mastodon follows, but most of them will be on the user account and individual PT channels will tend to have much lower sub counts