This is probably just a lack of fundamental understanding on my part but some communities I want to subscribe to; I’ll hit the sub button, it won’t change status for a while, I’ll refresh and it’ll say “Subscribe Pending”
A couple communities have been stuck like this for a day or so now. But other communities I’ll mash the sub button a bit more then it’ll switch over to “Joined”
Can communities be setup such that subscribers have to be approved by a comm mod or has my subscription request fallen into the void on the backend somewhere and I should try to subscribe again?
Thanks for any clarifications about this!
I also have this problem, but it’s only on Lemmy.ml for me. Literally every other instance I’ve used, I have been able to subscribe right away. It also doesn’t seem to be an issue with server load or federation, as I’m leaving this comment from my account on an instance I’m personally hosting. I can interact with communities on lemmy.ml, but I can’t subscribe for some reason. I also don’t think it’s an issue where it’s simply saying “Subscribe Pending” but actually subscribing behind the scenes, as I haven’t gotten any Lemmy.ml communities to show up in my feed.
This is actually not true. I now see that many of the communities showing this message are in my subscription feed.