Several communities I have tried to join from this account appear to sit at SUBSCRIBE PENDING forever, but when subscribing to the same group from my Friendica account seem to sit in WAITING FOR APPROVAL for ~1 minute.
In both cases I appear to be able to interact with the community without any difficulty.
That looks much better than https://browse.feddit.de/ . Still the built in search of the platform should be better… I hope it improves as who is going to stumble on to that site otherwise?