So I’m a reddit refugee and trying to understand how Lemmy works. Some of the communities I try to join say “subscribe pending”. Why is that? Anyway to fix this?
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A lot of you are talking about the beehaw defederation, but I also have several still pending from lemmy.ml.
Yes same, for example asklemmy@lemmy.ml will not allow me to subscribe, it keeps saying pending. Same thing with about 5 other Lemmy.ml communities, but only with Lemmy.ml and not every community. And my instance hasn’t been defederated.
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It can mean that the instance is overloaded. In the case of beehaw for a Lemmy.world user, it means the instance has defederated.
This is a common issue, there have been a lot of topics about this, I found this post about it that has quite a few responses explaining the cause: https://lemmy.world/post/93315
There’s also the possibility you’re trying to subscribe to a community from beehaw, where we have recently been defederated. Hence you’re seeing an cached version of it and you won’t be able to subscribe.
Yeah I was trying to join beehaw. But lemmy ml communities also have same problem.
A moderator will have to approve your request.
That’s not true, it means that the instance hosting the community hasn’t confirmed the subscription request. This confirmation seems to get lost sometimes if the instance is under heavy load.
Of course it’ll also mean that subscription requests to defederated instances will stay in a pending state. As the other instance will just ignore the request.
