I found an active thread in a sub on another instance I’d like to participate in. When I sub to the thread from sh.itjust.works there are no comments; I assume that’s because sh.itjust.works only starts syncing communities after the first subscription. So now I can either read the thread on an instance I don’t have a login for, or participate in an empty version of the thread on sh.itjust.works.

Is there any way to participate in the active thread at this point? Thanks.

edit: Just checked my subscription to the new community is [pending]. Maybe that’s it?

edit2: Thanks to @Barbarian I can at least sub to one of the pending communities, and the others are on lemmy.ml, so I’ll just wait those out.

        • Sisyphus @sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Can you walk me through how to do it? As it is, I can only see a thread on a community I’m not subscribed to by going to the instance it’s hosted on. But I’m not logged in there.

          • Sharp312@lemmy.oneEnglish
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            1 year ago

            While you wait for sh.itjust.works to sync all the comments, you can browse it on the other communities instance, find the comment you want to interact with, then right click the little rainbow icon next to the hyperlink icon, copy that link into sh.itjust.works’ search bar and it will sync that comment immediately, letting you interact with it.

            For example, if I found your comment on another instance and I wanted to reply, I would copy the link to it, go to my instance (lemmy.one) and paste the link which is: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/120320

            Hacky solution ik but itll work until the user experience kinks are ironed out.

            • realcaseyrollins@exploding-heads.comEnglish
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              1 year ago

              I’ve found that the best way to load a post or community is actually to just copy the remote link and search for it. Communities usually take about 30 seconds to load but if you sit in the search results page for a bit it’ll show up.

              But you may want to make sure that your instance isn’t blocked, by going to [instanceurl]/instances

  • planish@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think you might be able to subscribe and unsubscribe? I’m not sure why it would federate over the post itself but not the comments.

    If subscriptions are getting stuck pending, the community’s home instance could be overloaded. Maybe the comments will federate over later.

    • Sisyphus @sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Thank you. I’ll stick with it until it’s no longer pending and see if it fixes itself. You’re probably right that it’s just a taxed server.

      • PriorProject@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        If the pending subscription does sort itself out in a minute or two, and the Lemmy server hosting the community isn’t broken right now (test by visiting it’s homepage in a browser), then you can click the pending button to unsub and try to sub again. Retrying like this is how I sorted all my pendings, though obviously be chill and don’t do it a million times and generate million subscribe messages if something is legit busted.

        • Sisyphus @sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I have about a half dozen pending subscriptions, and have tried a few times to unsub then resub over the past 24 hours to them to no avail. I’ll keep trying. But they’re not all on the same server.