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?

  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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    1 year ago

    Sounds unfair and a perfect vehicle for anonymous harassment

    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.

    • deegeese
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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        1 year ago

        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.