I got Subscribe Pending message for days.

Thanks for the help.

  • TheBeege@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m not 100% sure this is correct because I haven’t looked at the protocol or implementations in detail yet, but I can offer some educated guesses.

    “Pending” implies that you’re waiting for some remote service, likely the other instance, to confirm that the subscription went through.

    I can think of a few reasons why an instance may never send confirmation or why the message may not update:

    • that instance defederated your instance, meaning you can see them, but they refuse to see you. This makes sense for beehaw, given that they’ve defederated several instances, including lemmy.world
    • that instance hit an error
    • the request or response was lost somewhere along the network
    • your client, that is, the website or mobile app you’re using, has a cached state of pending and never updated it even though it received confirmation

    Maybe I’ll dive into things tonight and get more info. Or i might forget. We’ll see 😅