... but it is federated (which confuses a lot of people)....
Add me to the confused bunch.
I opened an account on lemmy.ml last week, also actively testing Mlem iOS client.
I get the idea of cross-instance community subscriptions, so I tried subscribing to !canada@lemmy.ca and !ontario@lemmy.ca, but they are still sitting at "Subsctibe Pending", 4 days later. I can see the posts, participate in conversations and such, but I am not subscribed yet.
lemmy.ml went down hard yesterday (they did a server upgrade and apparently something didn't go well) so I was essentially dead in the water until this instance came back up.
My understanding is that my account lives only on lemmy.ml instance and I cannot use it to log on any other if it's down.
So what was my recourse in the meantime?
Open another account on different instance? Continue on another instance with hopes that my home server will eventually come back?
What if it doesn't?