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.
Looks nice! My old Octane has been sitting in its box since I sold my ex-ex-ex house in 2017. I know Nekochan is gone, so what’s the go-to place for software these days, Irixnet?