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I made a new account on a different instance and tried to subscribe to this community on the new account, but it just says 'Pending' rather than joined. It's not clear from the app what is pending. Or how long it should take

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[–] speedycat2014 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have found that by brute force hitting the button between Subscribe and Pending enough it eventually switches to "Joined". I'm not proud of my troubleshooting method.

[–] PriorProject 7 points 1 year ago

The brute force is strong with this one. I have seen the power of this technique. But if it doesn't work after 2 or 3 times I generally chill out and try again later, no use queuing up 1.5 million subscribe/unsubscribe messages if the instance hosting the community is legit broken for a while.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a cosmetic bug, you are in fact subscribed and the post will appear on your subscribed tab

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Thanks for answering this I was wondering as well and they were showing up in my feed haha

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

It seems more concerning that it is a symptom of federation failure. It may get you the local messages, but it also is a sign of how data is not flowing reliably between your local Lemmy instance and the remote instance that is hosting the community. If you are the first one to join a community, it may not have registered with the remote - and posts/comments may not be flowing.

Of greater concern is that if small updates like this aren't making it between Lemmy instances, how many comments are missing? Set Github bug on evidence of missing comments: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3101

[–] Zehzin 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think this might be due to lemmy.ml being overwhelmed rn

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

My testing shows this to be the case, the nginx 500 errors on other instances - lemmy.ml being one that has the most problems.

[–] miked 4 points 1 year ago

Beehaw defederated so all my subscriptions there show as pending.

Also, I've read perviously it doesn't mean anything. You are subscribed and it will eventually change.

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

It sounds like a bug to me

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

It secretly means "try again"

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

Curious on that one as well, just set up an instance the other day and trying to seed it with some communities of interest and though I'm seeing the content a lot of them still show as pending. I'm wondering if this is similar to the oddity I've seen on Mastodon with relays that somehow don't get the notice that they've been accepted but still start getting the feeds.

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