Basically, I've had an account on lemmy.ml for a while and now I've moved to lemmy.sdf.org and I can't seem to see my previous posts from my lemmy.ml account.
I have a couple of lemmy.ml communities that I am trying to subscribe to from another instance and it never moves away from subscribe pending. So I wonder if that is similar to what you are seeing? Or are you newer posts showing up, just not the older ones like @derin@lemmy.beru.co mentioned?
I suspect (without proof, just a hunch) that it's load and timeouts. I've had to subscribe, wait a few seconds, reload, unsub, reload, subscribe, lather-rinse-repeat a few times to get subscriptions to lemmy.ml work from lemmy.sdf.org.
I see the same from this SDF instance to 2 communities on lemmy.world (news@ and world@) - they're just stuck in Subscription Pending state over here. Yet, I did subscribe to another one before these two (by a few days) and it worked fine. Scratching my head...
This is the same thing that happened to me — no amount of clicking on anything will change the pending status. I can read things on Lemmy.ml just fine.
Hopefully they’ll squash the worst of the bugs soon.
I went over to lemm.ee and created an account to test from another location, getting the same behaviour over there as here. So we can probably say it's not something specific on the SDF setup, just lemmy (software) growing pains.