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 OPEnglish
    3•2 years 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.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•2 years 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.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•2 years 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

        • @[email protected]English
          4•2 years ago

          Does that get you comments too? In another thread OP said they were trying to access [email protected] and when I go to that community via my instance, i see the posts but no comments. And its obviously been a bit since it started syncing. Our instances arent blocked

          • @[email protected]English
            3•2 years ago

            It’s got me comments before.

            It sounds like you’re trying to get comments from posts to sync, rather that query individual comments.

            You should be able to load this comment, for example: https://exploding-heads.com/comment/29311

            But I don’t know of a way to force all comments on a remote post to load.

          • @[email protected]English
            2•2 years ago

            It depends on if that instance has blocked your instance that you made your profile on, i know for example beehaw has blocked exploding heads (for very little reason tbh) so now i can’t comment there but on here i can see your comment and give my two cents

      • Sisyphus OPEnglish
        3•2 years ago

        Oh, hey, that’s cool! I knew the “network” icon was a direct link, but didn’t know searching for it on my instance would sync it. Super cool.