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@Kovukono I mean another big reason is that many people here highly value open source and decentralization and while Bluesky promises to deliver that decentralization via AT Proto, currently they haven't done that. There aren't really any other instances and the main one doesn't have AT Proto Federation enabled (so even if you set up your own it's no use), so at the moment Bluesky is no different from a centralized platform, just with the promise of being decentralized in the future.

Mastodon on the other hand is decentralized right now, with many many servers to choose from, it's not a future promise of future decentralization, it is decentralized already. It also doesn't carry the negative connotation that Invite-only platforms carry, which is promotion by way of FOMO (fear of missing out), yeah some instances are invite-only but there are other instances people can join and still interact with everyone else due to federation.

@Kovukono Sir, this is the Fediverse, we use Mastodon here.

@mrmanager Yup something is definately wrong here. Made a Github issue so hopefully it can be addressed soon.

@mrmanager Doesn't seem to be fixed by a restart unfortunately.

@lemann I wonder if it might also be affecting Kbin users too. I'm not sure though since I ditched Kbin a long time ago (there were lots of bugs and shitty people on there).

@lemann I think these are very different issues on Mastodon than on Lemmy since on mastodon when its pending it isn't just a visual glitch like on Lemmy, it's just not letting you follow.

I've experienced what you're describing on Lemmy where it shows as pending but does show up in the subscriptions list after a few refreshes. It unfortunately doesn't seem to work out like that on Mastodon when following users or communities that are on Lemmy 0.19 instances.

@db0 So the dragonchat one went through, even though it says pending on the instance?

Also yeah I guess I do have a lot, I made most mainly due to federation problems but there were other reasons too (like when lemmy.world decided to go to war against piracy as well as other things). Ah well it's good to have redundancy, in case systems fail or instances go bust (that happened to unilem, they just disappeared overnight without warning).

@db0 @div0 Ah so I guess it is instance specific. That'll make troubleshooting hard if some instances work and some don't. Hopefully it's mostly consistent.

@db0 @div0 That's... really weird.

I just tried on my other account on dragonchat.org to see if it might be glitch-soc but it also didn't work there. I wonder why hackyderm.io is working for following when others aren't.

Mind also trying to follow @memes and @astronomy (no reason in particular for why I picked these ones, just picked them since they're 0.19 instances) just to see if it's specific to dbzer0 or if it's working with other instances too.

@db0 @div0 try refreshing the page, it didn't say pending for me until I refreshed.

@db0 I think I'll do that, just wondering, is there any indication of my follow requests on your end? I'm trying to follow the piracy community.

@mrmanager Tried following the community from Mastodon but it says pending. I'm not sure this entirely fixed it.