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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There isn't an approval process to subscribe to communities - anyone with a Lemmy account can subscribe. What are you seeing that looks like you need approval?

There can be an approval process for signing up to an instance/server, though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I think they're referring the Subscribe Pending prompt that some communities give when trying to subscribe.

I've noticed it myself and actually have been wondering the same thing

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

When I search for a community that isn't on my local instance, I often get a "subscription pending" text, instead of it immediately changing to "joined".

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I noticed this too, but it feels more like a pull for the community is scheduled, and usually within minutes Iโ€™ll see in under my subscribed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't think it's about approval (there is no "approve subscribers" option when setting up new communities on lemmy). I think it's a bug or burp in the process. I had about 5 pending the other day and now only one shows it now. All of them function normally.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It seems all of them work as well, but if I look at communities I've subscribed to around 20-30 say subscription pending. Most of them are subs I found yesterday, but some are from several days ago.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Here's the bug report for it on github. As far as I can tell it's cosmetic. Some folks report that unsubbing/resubbing fixes it but I haven't tried that.

Edited to add: my sub for this community shows pending. :-)