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Tim Russell

@trumpet I’ve tried following about 5 different people this morning but all of my follow requests say they are Pending. These accounts have told me they automatically allow follows so not sure what is happening. Network slowness???

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Matt Brown

@TimR @trumpet I think that's due to a very large queue that's very backed up. When you click follow, it doesn't interact with the DB instantly — instead, it queues your follow request because it requires a handshake with an external server. More on scaing queues here: docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/sc

Caroline Prince

@mattbrowndev @TimR @trumpet Oh, thank you for this. I was so confused about why this was happening since it was automatically following them before.

Loonytoad Quack

@TimR @trumpet I had the same problem but it started working properly about 3 or 4 hours ago. Unfortunately all my pendings stayed pending, but if I went back and cancelled request then re-followed it worked. Not sure if the backlog will ultimately clear.

Also not sure how you actually see all the federated users you've followed as they don't appear under Following, although maybe that will fix itself later?

Loonytoad Quack

@TimR @trumpet Scrap that, everything's gone back to pending even though it showed as followed earlier, guess I'll just chill for a bit and wait for the backlog to clear!

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