I recently downloaded Minecraft and joined my friends server. It was working perfectly fine for the first two days but, yesterday when I went to log on to the world from my shortcut in my multiplayer server list it kicked me and everyone in the server to the main lobby. This happened after the update to 1.16.1. When i realized the server had been updated, I picked the latest release, tried again, and it still didn't work. After trying some of the few "solutions" i found within the forums it still doesn't allow me to join the server.
So far I've tried:
reloading the server
changing my version to latest release
allowing java to past through my firewall
changing the name of the server
trying to join through the server through the lobby
At this point I'm annoyed that it keeps happening and just want a solution