• ghashul
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    2 years ago

    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”.

    • maynarkh@feddit.nl
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      2 years ago

      That’s just a bug with federation and overloaded servers, it should only happen if the other instance can’t be reached by your own.

    • bakavic@latte.isnot.coffee
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      2 years ago

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

    • Frater Mus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 years ago

      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.

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        2 years ago

        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.

        • Frater Mus@lemmy.sdf.org
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          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. :-)