On my instance it marks the Lemmy account and group as locked and the account must validate the subscription. I don't have this problem using a Mastodon account though.
if it aint federating, why bother? understably, i dont 'get' the microblog side of the 'verse... but interoperability is the point.. isnt it? why jump to crippled product?
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