• lackthought@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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    1 year ago

    are you on desktop or an app?

    I know on desktop you should be able to log into sh.itjust.works, then click on the Communities tab and there will be a search box

    if you paste !cats@midwest.social into the search box and hit search it will attempt to federate that community onto sh.itjust.works

    it can take a minute to appear but the search result should eventually switch from no results to showing the ‘cats’ community and you can then view/subscribe right there from your home instance

    same applies to any remote community, you need to search for the !community_name@instance_name from your home instances search box

    • captain_americano@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Thanks! I’m on desktop and was successfully finding communities in search, just unable to join them - maybe it’s finicky right now. I was finally able to join !main@midwest.social and !gaming@midwest.social under this account, but wasn’t able to earlier. Opening any links (including from search) to community sites under the midwest.social instance would sign me out.