Several communities I have tried to join from this account appear to sit at SUBSCRIBE PENDING forever, but when subscribing to the same group from my Friendica account seem to sit in WAITING FOR APPROVAL for ~1 minute.
In both cases I appear to be able to interact with the community without any difficulty.
Subscribe pending will happen if the remote instance was unable to acknowledge the subscription request, either because of an outage or the server was overloaded. It won’t really matter on your end, you’ll still be subscribed and see the community in your subscription list. It’s probably going to affect how many subscribers the original instance sees for that community.
Bro I can’t even figure out how to subscribe to a community from the community’s page rather than having to scroll through the entire “communities” list and pick from there. Also not sure how to have a feed comprised of only my subscribed communities
To subscribe to a community when you’re on its page, look near the top of the page, and you’ll see a box inside of which is the word “sidebar.” Click on that, and you’ll see a list of options, including “subscribe.” Sort of the same thing as you’d do in Reddit. To see only subscribed communities, look on the main landing page when you open lemmy. There’s three lines of boxes (will they look like boxes to me) near the top of the second line at the right there are three options: subscribed/local/all. It defaults to local, so just click on subscribed. Hope this helps. I’d include a screenshot, but I’m not sure how to do it yet. Maybe someone else can if you’re still not clear.
Of note search is instance based and only includes other instances that members have subscribed to at least one community…
I have been actively looking at 3rd party sites that list out interesting instances and communities because search is very limited here still. It really seems like lemmy’s search design will promote lots of duplication and islands of similar but separate content.
I just learned of this https://lemmyverse.net/ probably will help your issue. set your home instance to lemmy.ca and it will automatically fix all the links to be to this instance instead of the instance the community resides on.
That looks much better than https://browse.feddit.de/ . Still the built in search of the platform should be better… I hope it improves as who is going to stumble on to that site otherwise?
