I recently setup my own lemmy instance per the guide with docker and I have been having issues getting content to my server. I discovered a bunch of communities and instances and started subscribing to some communities to get constant updates. The problem is no matter what I do it is stuck on “subscription pending” and I get no new content on my server. I have been trying to figure this out for a week now, thanks in advance for any help.
I see this often using any instance other than the one the community is on. It’s because the instances need to talk to each other communicating any changes and also approving them. It will do this automatically, it just takes varying amounts of time depending on the queue and distance from each other.