Seems to only happen with lemmy.ml for whatever reason. Hitting the “subscribe pending” button and trying again makes zero difference.
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I have the same problem with !memes@lemmy.ml
Occasionally I can redo the subscribe and it will work instantly. Not a consistent thing, but every once in a while I went through my subscribed communities and redid the pending ones until I got them all subscribed