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?
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.
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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.
A lot of you are talking about the beehaw defederation, but I also have several still pending from lemmy.ml.
Yes same, for example [email protected] 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.
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
Yeah, I also just saw it while researching about it, thanks!
As you might not know, we were defederated from Beehaw, so if you’re trying to sub to a Beehaw community, it won’t work
I didn’t know about the Beehaw defederation. Thanks for information. But not all pendings are Beehaw ones, there are also pendings from lemmy ml, too.
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.
It looks like beehaw is not joinable anymore. I hope other communities’ mods approve, tho.
What they said is incorrect, 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.
Unless they’re running a custom version of lemmy that I’m unaware of, there’s no such thing as manually approving a subscription request.
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.
Ohhhh, that’s why. I was just about to reply about it possibly being server lag, because I’ve always been able to join instantly on sh.itjust.works. But maybe it’s actually because lemmy.world requires mod approval to join communities while sh.itjust.works lets us run wild?
