Lemmy @lemmy.ml maegul @lemmy.ml 4w ago

Are the new local-only communities also private by default?

I'm sure this will get clarified in the release notes for 19.4, and I'm probably annoyingly jumping the gun ... I'm just curious.

Otherwise, I find it cool to see this feature come out!

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Isn't ML running 0.19.4? Test it for us 😏
- Ha ... it seems like it at least.
  
  I think I was being dumb in asking the question actually.
  
  It's really just about the circle of users to whom the community is visible.
  
  Local-only ... visible only to users of the instance. I'd presumed that it could be writable only to users of the instance such that only users of the instance could post/comment there. But double checking, no, it's only visible if you're logged on with an account on that instance ... so pretty private in the end actually.
  
  private communities ... which are apparently coming ... are visible only to approved users, whether on the local instance or not.
  
  And presumably, these will be stackable, so that a local-only + private community will be visible only to approved users from the local instance. So getting pretty closed.
  
  Hopefully these don't start getting used too frequently, as it kind of... defeats the purpose of federation. Would not want to have to make accounts on multiple instances just to participate in niche communities.
  
  Both will change the landscape of the fediverse, it's just a matter of seeing if for the better. I'm mostly against private communities because I want everyone to interact, but they can help a lot for things like moderation coordination.
I created !imaginary@reddthat.com recently, Reddthat runs 0.19.4, the default setting was "Public". Maybe it's a configuration that can modified by admins?

Edit: completely misread the title, sorry
- All good ... the whole post was started by me misreading in the first place I think!

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