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Are the new local-only communities also private by default? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The point of federation is to publicly share what you want to publicly share, not to have unfettered access to whatever you want to consume.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Eh, we already have private communities.

I did mention further down the comment chain the one use case for this I can think of - communities for info and feedback about the specific instance to / from its members; things like donations, financial disclosures, etc. - that you wouldn't want participation in from anyone not actually using the instance. It has its place; I'm more afraid of seeing popular communities going instance-only for whatever reason, with it being used solely to drive signups on a specific instance.