What is a pending subscription?

ott@sh.itjust.works to Jerboa@lemmy.ml – 1 points –

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

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I don't know what it is. However, I can access the content with this warning

The subscribe feature in Jerboa is somehwat broken. It should happen almost instantly... unless there is an approval process of some sort to join a community (I'm not aware of that, but maybe some communities can be set to private with an approval process). On the web UI on the other hand, everything happens instantly.

So, yeah, a PITA, I know, but it's best to add communities through the web UI... at least for now.