Just logged into my year old account, checks out

Why not just buy the plain flavor

Yes they do

I use vidspeedcontroller

Why not just use an extension?

This is how it is at the start of any fediverse alternative, I remember mastodon being all about how Elon is running Twitter into the ground, but now it’s its own community.

Give it time and it will pass, people are still rightfully pissed off at the admins and enjoying a bit of schadenfreude.

likely an issue with your request, i've had the same issue on multiple occasions, usually fixed by clicking the pending button and then resubscribing, takes a few tries sometimes