When I try to subscribe to a community and it says “Pending”, what does that mean from a technical perspective?

  • Seigest@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I belive that means a mod of that sub needs to approve you. I’ve had this happen woth a few I’ve joined i got in eventually.

    I am guessing it’s a default setting for new communities and many if them have yet to turn it off or somthing.

    • KiranWells@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      As far as I can tell, you only need to press once. Pressing again just updates the UI, and pending means that the API call is still waiting (probably because of server overload)