• Probably me not understanding how it works, but most lemmy.ml communities I subscribed to have this “subscribe pending” but I can still interact with them, just like you did with this thread. So I guess it’s just a display issue and we are actually subscribed to those communities?

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      1 year ago

      It’s “federation lag”, if you insist, or try another time it will subscribe for good eventually

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      That’s how I understand it works too. Since people don’t get how the fedeverse works, they’re dog piling the biggest communities and as a result they’re (the instance) having trouble. The request is probably lost in the void processing but if you can see the content you’re effectively subscribed