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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems to be a bug, I think it happens most frequently when trying to subscribe to a community on a busy instance. It doesn't seem to affect functionality though, I see new posts, vote and comment, etc. Sometimes if you refresh the page or try again it goes away and says subscribed, but I wouldn't worry, doesn't seem to change anything right now. Just assume it means subscribed. I think for this community right now it says "sub pending" for me actually.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure it’s a bug. Some of the smaller instances I’ve subscribed to show β€œsubscribed” right away. The larger instances seem to show pending, but as far as I can tell it works as expected.

[–] dan1101 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a bug, I have been able to tap it and hit Subscribe again and it works after a couple seconds.

[–] halo5 2 points 1 year ago

I've had this work for me one time, but most of the time it doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

So 2 votes for bug, 2 votes for privacy reasons. I too want to know.

[–] AskThinkingTim 3 points 1 year ago

Glad I'm not the only one. Currently "Subscribe Pending" on subs outside my instance. lemmy.ml must be struggling right now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It takes a few seconds to subscribe since the server is limited to a finite amount of interactions per refresh. Give it like 30 seconds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I am not 100% sure, but I think that is automatic when you sub to a remote community.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

~~probably the creator of the community want to select who can enter and who cannot, it's like for private Instagram profile, the owner have to accept your request~~

as @[email protected] said:

the instance is probably overloaded or the instance of that community is defederated from your's

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's no such option on Lemmy at the moment. It can mean two things: A) the instance is overloaded, which happens frequently with lemmy.ml B) the instance has defederated from your home instance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

sorry, didn't knew that

[–] Trendscat 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sorry but that's wrong. The "subscribe pending" thing is just a known bug currently. It means you're actually subscribed but the server on one end hasn't acknowledge it yet due to load.

You can test it out yourself, "subscribe pending" communities show up in your "Subscribed" feed.

You can search for other posts about the issue but here's one example: https://lemmy.ca/post/666272

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

… and if it’s a community on lemmy.ml it usually means that the server had another hick-up and that you should try again.

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