• captain_americano@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I can’t join any midwest.social communities, I have to create a new account. Is this because my account is under sh.itjust.works and midwest.social isn’t linked like Beehaw and lemmy.world? Not a question specifically for you, just anyone with fediverse knowledge.

      • lackthought@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
        2·
        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.worksEnglish
          2·
          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.