I’m wondering if this post will even go through**. Long story short, I had to rebuild my Lemmy instance without importing the old data. I manually recreated my account (Knova@links.dartboard.social) and was able to subscribe to communities (although everything says “subscription pending”*). But it doesn’t seem like my posts federate properly.
*additionally, a third party Lemmy app I use does not recognize my subscriptions when they are in this pending state, further driving me to conclude it’s broken.
I made a new account on my instance to see if things were broken, and under a new name things seem to be working. Is my original username doomed to purgatory?
**test - posted this originally from the KNova account but doesnt look like it hit the lemmy.ml server. See here - https://links.dartboard.social/post/7176 - trying to repost from my other account now.
So, it'll still take a little while before it settles down, but I've seen other people in the admin chat do the same thing and it eventually recovered.
As for the subscriptions, part of the problem is the remote instance thinks you're already subscribed. I think if you unsubscribe and resubscribe it may go through, but you may also just need to use a new account name.