idk what to tell you, but that is what that number means. Here is mine, you can see it shows a 1 as ive only ever made 1 post, and not a 3 for the number of points on my only post. Also im not sure this applies to other lemmy instances, might just be a lemm.ee thing.

that’s number of comments, not total points.

Do you know any regular people? Most people I know have never even heard the word fediverse.