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Why can't I subscribe to communities in other instances? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I got the Pending Subscription message for days. I tried multiple instances with the same result.

Thank you

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@[email protected] If the instance is overloaded, how do you still get posts then?

Does the subscription being pending remove any functionality or change the behavior at all?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You sometimes don't... Or they come in with a delay. Comments and votes are also going missing. It's a known issue with the bigger instances, outgoing federation gets bottle-necked and starts dropping stuff. v18 improves it massively but .world hasn't updated in waiting for v18.1

Not that I can tell. It might, if you're the first to sub, but aside from then, you still get anything that makes it to your server in your feed.