Does subscribing to a community require approval?

I've tried subbing to some other communities however the status stays pending for quite a long time. Could this be because they are on other instances?

15 points · 4 comments · view on lemmy.world

4 Comments

slashzero@hakbox.social · 4 pts · 3y

No approval required. When you see that it’s likely the instance hosting that community is struggling and the request is taking a while. If you cancel and try again a few times it should eventually work.

gts@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

Some of them come up with that but I’ve not worked out the pattern yet. You might be on to something about them being on other instances, I’ll check..

Cralex@lemmy.one · 1 pts · 3y

I’ve had that happen to me once while visiting another instance on the computer. I eventually clicked the button again to cancel, and then clicked it again and it worked right away. 🤷‍♂️

CoffeeMonster42@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Seems to be mostly communities from lemmy.ml having this problem.