What’s happening?

  • sunaurus@lemm.eeM
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    1 year ago

    “Subscription pending” means that lemm.ee has registered your subscription, but the remote instance has not confirmed it. This can happen in one-off cases when there is some network issue between lemm.ee and the remote instance, but if it’s happening for a longer period then it might mean that the remote instance is down or otherwise having trouble.

    One thing to check for: is the remote instance running 0.18.1 or later? Earlier versions of Lemmy had serious trouble with federation.

    If the remote instance is on a fresh version but still having trouble, please list some specific examples of communities that won’t accept your subscription and I can take a closer look!

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      1 year ago

      This happens to me sometimes. I’ve listed a few communities that still say subscription pending that are on 0.18.2. Some communities from each of those instances don’t have any issues, but these still say “subscription pending” :

      !BestOf@kbin.social

      !foss@beehaw.org

      !science@beehaw.org

      Edit: I had more communities up there but after writing the post, I clicked on each of those links and they were mostly marked as “joined” now. I found that unsubscribing, waiting 3 seconds, and re-subscribing sometimes made the instance recognize that I had joined the community.