Is this based on instance performance accepting the subscription, or is it a generalize Lenny bug where it doesn’t send it properly?
Is this based on instance performance accepting the subscription, or is it a generalize Lenny bug where it doesn’t send it properly?
Many instances are simply overloaded, so the requests get hung up.
Do you know if they have retry logic?
That I’m not sure on. Hopefully someone smarter than me can answer that question.
It appears that maybe there is no retry logic: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3203
You should generally click the pending button to cancel the subscription request and then try again, possibly after waiting “a while” for the instance to have a moment where it feels less existential dread.