What does it mean and how do I fix it?

  • @[email protected]
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    201 year ago

    Some servers, like lemmy.ml or beehaw are aching under their respective load, so everything takes a while. Couldn’t even log into lemmy.world, which is why I wandered off to sh.itjust.works

  • @[email protected]
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    111 year ago

    I believe it just means that the instance you tried to subscribe to hasn’t responded to the federation request yet. Just wait a while and it’ll resolve itself, assuming they haven’t blocked you or something (and assuming that instance isn’t down).

    • @PriorProject
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      51 year ago

      And if it doesn’t work itself out in “a while”, it’s safe to click pending to unsub and then try to resub again. Though doing this a million times in a row while lemmy.ml is groaning under load is probably not helpful.

  • @TinfoilBeanieTech
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    81 year ago

    I’m guessing you’re seeing this on non-local communities? I think it means you’re local server hasn’t started copying and caching that content yet. I haven’t taken a look at that part of the code yet, so just a guess.

    • DarkwingDuckOP
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      1 year ago

      Yep. Mostly lemmy.ml for some reason, yet it’s not every community. Been hanging out since yesterday.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        Yeah, I have several pending subscriptions on lemmy.ml as well. It definitely seems to correlate with how overloaded the instance is.

  • catsarebadpeople
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    11 year ago

    I’ve had pending subscriptions for 5 days now. Are things overloaded that badly?