What the title says
It’s a bug, I have been able to tap it and hit Subscribe again and it works after a couple seconds.
probably the creator of the community want to select who can enter and who cannot, it’s like for private Instagram profile, the owner have to accept your request
I am not 100% sure, but I think that is automatic when you sub to a remote community.
Seems to be a bug, I think it happens most frequently when trying to subscribe to a community on a busy instance. It doesn’t seem to affect functionality though, I see new posts, vote and comment, etc. Sometimes if you refresh the page or try again it goes away and says subscribed, but I wouldn’t worry, doesn’t seem to change anything right now. Just assume it means subscribed. I think for this community right now it says “sub pending” for me actually.
So 2 votes for bug, 2 votes for privacy reasons. I too want to know.