Here’s a quote from a generally good Lemmy howto

To mitigate spam bots, most lemmy instances require new user accounts to be explicitly approved. This may take a few minutes or a few hours. In the meantime, go for a walk, read through the official Lemmy documentation, or browse through all the available Lemmy Subreddits Communities while you wait.

ah. now armed with that extra information, i can only profess cluelessness. perhaps a “–verbose” option, well watched, would reveal something (maybe) good luck!

i believe that is what will be used by reflector if it is enabled/started as a systemd service. but, i think, that’ll not be used if you’re just calling it on the command-line. in that latter case, i think you must supply (those) command-line switches on …the command-line. (maybe)

Could you include what you’re currently using for the various reflector command-line switches? (e.g. --age --protocol --sort …)