I'd like to set up and federate an instance of Lemmy with the purpose of inviting friends and family. I imagine that they'd appreciate having spaces limited to family members where posting information or photos wouldn't erode their anonymity elsewhere in the fediverse.
Is there a way to make some communities private so that only those who are invited can view or post within them?
When searching, I only see one mention of private communities as a feature that isn't finished. But, that post appears to be 3 years old.
Thanks so much! I'm really enjoying the community here.
I believe the closest you can do at the moment is make a community moderators only, and then make the people you want moderators of that community. That isn't really what you want though, because everyone can still read it.
The main issue is that lemmy is basically just 2 devs trying to work around their own lives, jobs and running this instance. Now that more attention is coming to lemmy, it will be interesting to see if they start to get more devs offering their changes to the project