Lemmygrad.ml has been de-federated by all other instances. Maybe that’s the reason. It’s odd though that it works for some communities but not for others.
I have seen in other threads though that some people ran into similar issues of not finding a community with the url, etc. Unfortunately, I can’t remember what the responses to that were.
You might be able to find those comments if you search for posts regarding issues with search for communities.
Edit
I found the following post. Does it help you?
If it still doesn’t help you, try to contact your instance admin.
Edit 2
The “subscribe pending” loop has been described by others as a visual bug. If the cancelling and re-subscribing doesn’t work, try if you can vote or post in that community even though the status still says pending.
Lemmygrad.ml has been de-federated by all other instances. Maybe that’s the reason. It’s odd though that it works for some communities but not for others.
I have seen in other threads though that some people ran into similar issues of not finding a community with the url, etc. Unfortunately, I can’t remember what the responses to that were. You might be able to find those comments if you search for posts regarding issues with search for communities.
Edit I found the following post. Does it help you?
https://lemmy.world/comment/471481
If it still doesn’t help you, try to contact your instance admin.
Edit 2 The “subscribe pending” loop has been described by others as a visual bug. If the cancelling and re-subscribing doesn’t work, try if you can vote or post in that community even though the status still says pending.
I wonder why it was defederated. So far it just seems like a bunch of edgy left leaning people, but maybe I’ll eventually find out why.
That other post seems to describe the same issue, but has no solution. I guess it helped me in knowing that there isn’t a solution yet, haha
I’ll try to message the admin, thanks
FWIW, I don’t think it has anything to do with federation or instances since I am having the exact same issue with my lemmy.world account.