I think lemmy.ml and beehaw have gone down recently. So maybe there are issues subscribing to communities hosted there? I have seen the same issue for some of those communities.

I’m having this issue too. Could just be a side effect of server strain from the influx of users coming in.

happening on lemmy.ml communities for me. lemmy.one communities seem fine for me.
edit: its also happening to me on communities outside lemmy.ml now

It looks to be some kind of bug. Even though it shows as pending the communities still show up in my subscribed feed. I guess it’ll sort itself out over time.

I think most of the Reddit-like Fediverse is going to be pretty unstable for a while, especially during this outage lol.

I’m still wondering on this. I suspect it has something to do with refreshes between instances - as if this instance isn’t yet away of that community. It’s always in foreign instances, regardless.

I had a few that didn’t work, then I tried them again a day later and they went through. However I’ve had others on major instances that still haven’t come in (eg /c/asklemmy@lemmy.world).

I’d love to hear @sunaurus’ opinion on this.

I’m seeing this especially with lemmy.ml communities. The consensus is that it’s due to latency, but what’s weird is if I cycle the subscription it may go through instantaneously. It’s looking more like a bug to me or maybe a combination of code issues and latency.