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Private community here on the fediverse? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Hi guys, same Iranian guy here, first I want to say I really appreciate you guys helping me, love you guys you all are genuinely amazing people.

I read all your comments in my previous post and one thing I realized I'm not qualified for this at all. This is too dangerous and puts my life and many of my friends at risk.

So in the spirit of being pragmatic here and finding best solution meanwhile I figure that out. Where can we have a private community with moderation and admin tools and multi-topic discussions on the fediverse? Is that even a thing? I know that's not how fediverse works so the answer is probably a hard No. Then where should we go? Discord have all this but that's not my preference at all. I know Reddit has private subs but I don't like reddit like many of you guys. What is the compromise here what do you suggest I should do?

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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Lemmy 1.0 will have 'private communities', which are communities whose posts can only be viewed by approved subscribers. I wouldn't trust this though, you can't guarantee other instances running other software will keep the posts private, so I'd only trust this if you host the instance and allow list vetted instances, which just opens you up to the problems mentioned in the other thread.

Your best bet is an e2ee messaging app with group support. People will recommend Matrix, but the moderation tools kind of suck and it can be very resource demanding to host (from what I've heard, I don't host Matrix). Signal is what most privacy people will recommend but I don't know how accessible it is in Iran given it's centralised nature. The XMPP people will inevitably speak up and they're probably even right, but I've never used XMPP so can't speak on it.

[–] Nusm@piefed.social 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know anything about the safety and security, I just wanted to point out that Piefed has had private communities for about 4 months now. One can be set up where the only way you can get in is being invited by a member, a mod, or the owner of the community.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Piefed's private communities are local only, ie no federation. The Lemmy 1.0 ones do federate.

[–] Nusm@piefed.social 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I think that not federating would be better for a private community, but maybe that's just me. If it federates, then it's not really private.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 points 1 hour ago

Sure, but I'm just pointing out that these are different features that happen to be named the same thing. I'd also point out that something that doesn't federate can't really be called part of the fediverse, which is what OP was asking about.