Strange Follow request difference
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wrote on 11 Mar 2025, 20:13 last edited by
I followed mander@medicine.xyz from my account on this instance, and another nodebb instance.
This one shows Following, the other shows pending!
Follows dont need acceptance do they, why the difference?
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wrote on 11 Mar 2025, 20:25 last edited by
I've been noticing a lot more hanging follow requests with/from Lemmy since upgrading to 4.1. It's not consistent, though -- some Lemmy sites continue to process them fine, and some don't. I initially thought it had to do with the Lemmy version, but I'm seeing both behaviours from 0.19.9, so... *shrug*.
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wrote on 12 Mar 2025, 02:13 last edited by
@eeeee follows do need to be accepted, although it's configurable. Most software auto accepts, but delays in messaging mean sometimes the requests or responses get lost.
Cancel that follow and try again, and it might be accepted.
You see the settings cog because you're an admin on your instance.
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wrote on 12 Mar 2025, 08:00 last edited by
Thanks, I tried unfollowing and following again, but its always the same.
On this instance it says following and my one it says 'cancell follow request' although the pop up box said 'You are now follwing etc'
I wonder is the difference because Im admin. It doesnt make sense why it displays differently -
wrote on 12 Mar 2025, 11:40 last edited by
@eeeee there's no difference in follows if you're admin vs non-admin.
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wrote on 12 Mar 2025, 15:21 last edited by
Yea, odd, I made a second account on mysite and that follows and unfollows normally.
So its a mystery why my first Admin account is doing it differently.
Maybe one day we will figure out whats altering the behaviour