@feditips It would probably help if the UI made it clear that this "pending" status is different from "waiting for manual approval".

And I wonder how often do these requests fail to "complete", does anybody have numbers on that? (That is, how often does it need to be re-done instead of just waiting.)

Also: depending on the side which is experiencing congestion, when A follows B, B's side may actually see that A has successfully followed B, even if A still sees it as pending.