Anyone else have a few communities stuck in “Subscribe pending” for days and days? Does this need manual intervention? (New to Lemmy)
Edit 6/28/2023: I went poking around lemmy.world and they’re definitely having federation problems that are being discussed in their local communities. It’s not a problem with this SDF instance.
I went down this rabbit hole this morning. There was a bug pre version 0.18.0 which caused this when subscribing to a federated community. If you go through and unsubscribe and resubscribe this should fix the issue. I did this myself and it fixed all except one which, unfortunately, is from lemmy.world. I am wondering if their instance is having an issue or if maybe they’re on an older Lemmy release which is causing an issue.
I only have this problem with lemmy.world as well. Strange, since they’ve upgraded to 0.18.
I think it’s related to overloaded instances. I got up real early (CEST) when Americans are mostly asleep, and unsubscribed + resubscribed to the “pending” lemmy.world communities, and now I’m properly subscribed. This did not work during “prime time” yesterday.
This worked for me for a couple of communities that were stuck in the ‘pending’ state.
I have it on many subs, on lemmy.world and lemmy.ml, it looks like they do subscribe and it’s simply an issue with latency on return calls/sync/federation.
I’m seeing the same thing for :
Sometimes I’d have to wait minutes, but I’d give up after a day. I’d just leave it pending and then the next day cancel the pending and try again. Eventually they all got subscribed. 🤷
I’ve noted that I assumed it was for manual review or a hiccup in the federation that would eventually clear itself I’ll have to check those communities later to see if they are still pending
