• HSL@wayfarershaven.eu
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    1 year ago

    There isn’t an approval process to subscribe to communities - anyone with a Lemmy account can subscribe. What are you seeing that looks like you need approval?

    There can be an approval process for signing up to an instance/server, though.

    • sasukelion12@lemmy.zip
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      1 year ago

      I think they’re referring the Subscribe Pending prompt that some communities give when trying to subscribe.

      I’ve noticed it myself and actually have been wondering the same thing

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      1 year ago

      When I search for a community that isn’t on my local instance, I often get a “subscription pending” text, instead of it immediately changing to “joined”.

      • bakavic@latte.isnot.coffee
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        1 year ago

        I noticed this too, but it feels more like a pull for the community is scheduled, and usually within minutes I’ll see in under my subscribed.

      • Frater Mus@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        I don’t think it’s about approval (there is no “approve subscribers” option when setting up new communities on lemmy). I think it’s a bug or burp in the process. I had about 5 pending the other day and now only one shows it now. All of them function normally.

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          1 year ago

          It seems all of them work as well, but if I look at communities I’ve subscribed to around 20-30 say subscription pending. Most of them are subs I found yesterday, but some are from several days ago.

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            1 year ago

            Here’s the bug report for it on github. As far as I can tell it’s cosmetic. Some folks report that unsubbing/resubbing fixes it but I haven’t tried that.

            Edited to add: my sub for this community shows pending. :-)