Is it possible to make a lemmy instance private were no communities, posts, user profiles and the homepage is not available unless your logged in?
Is it possible to make a lemmy instance private were no communities, posts, user profiles and the homepage is not available unless your logged in?
Federated and private means you can post in other people’s instances and view their users and communities, but you are hidden from them. Sounds unfair and a perfect vehicle for anonymous harassment, so I see why it was removed.
I don’t really see how this is possible?
If I go to your community and harass it… A mod can just ban me.
If I harass you personally you can just block me.
I don’t really see how a private community would really change the above options. I can understand that from a moderation/administration standpoint that it could be harder to make decisions if you can’t see the users post history… but I don’t quite see that as being sufficient to take away the ability to have private communities.
Imagine if Facebook did it with Threads and all of a sudden 90% of users you see on Lemmy you can only interact with by replying to their comments on other people’s instances.
It destroys federation by priveledging certain users.
That’s basically 100% of how I interact with people as it is.
I’m not chasing you back to your instance to talk to you about some other topic. I’m interacting with you in the communities that I want to be a part of.