I can see posts and cimmebts but I am unable to upvote/post anything. When I try, I am prompted to log in. When I try that, I get a never ending rotating thingy :-(
You need to visit the community via your instance, not directly via theirs.
You can paste the full URL for their community into the search box in your instance and search for it, and you’ll get a link to their community that you can click to accomplish this; you can subscribe to it from there, as well.
I don’t know what community you’re referring to specifically, but you’ll end up with a URL that’s something like http://sh.itjust.works/c/worldnews@their.instance.
I’ve done juste that. I pasted https://lemmy.ml/c/worldnews in the searchbox of sh.itjust.works and pressed search but nothing happens. I selected all in the menu.
Not the search box, the URL bar! That’s the bar for your browser.
This is the correct link. https://sh.itjust.works/c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
The search box in your instance is actually what I meant:
The difference between this and just searching for ‘World News’ is that if you do it this way, it will force your instance to index that instance if it hasn’t already done so. (You might get no results for a few moments after you click Search, only for it to then appear - that’s the delay while it’s indexed.) Obviously sh.itjust.works already knows about lemmy.ml, so it’s academic here, but when I made the suggestion, we didn’t know what instance they were looking for. :)
Just searching “world news” brings it right up for me. The URL definitely should work too.
OK thanks
Are you going over to their instance and trying to post through that? That’s not how this works. Take note of which instance you’re currently on though. The best metaphor I’ve seen is that this is kinda like email and you’ve got a Gmail account and you’re trying to email someone with a Hotmail account, you don’t go to Hotmail, you go through your Gmail account.
Assuming you’re on mobile, go back to the sh.itjust.works main page, press the menu icon on the right, select ‘communities’, under where it says “list of communities” select ‘all’, then search worldnews. There’s several options, select the one that’s on the right instance, and now you should be viewing the community while still on the shit just works instance. If you think you’d like to come back to that community in the future, there’s a subscribe option in the sidebar menu. This won’t work with all communities, but it should work with most of the larger ones (you’ll want to copy and paste something like !worldnews@lemmy.ml in the search bar instead, it’s a bit finicky on mobile though).
Thanks for explaining things more precisely. I think I’m good now, guess I should have started using Lemmy on a PC.
