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?
Used to be possible by ticking both federation and private on the admin page. But now they made it where you can’t toggle both simultaneously.
I’d like to see that return as a feature. I’d like to have my local instance have private communities for my users but still provide my users the ability to go out to the rest of the fediverse. My instance is friends of friends sort of stuff. So I have no reason to host communities out to the whole of the fediverse.
By leaving the federation box unchecked and having the private box checked off, will the instance not be visible to the public unless your logged in?
Federation unchecked and private unchecked. An instance that is publicly accessible, but doesn’t talk to other instances Federation checked and private unchecked. An instance that is publicly accessible, and does federate with others. (Most of the big instances are this) Federation unchecked and private checked. An instance that is private and requires logins to access the communities and other parts, but doesn’t federate.
Federation checked and private checked… Used to work. communities hosted on the server would require a local account and would still federate out. This was outright blocked from 0.17.4 I believer…
The last case is perfect for me. I want to setup communities for my friends around particular topics on my instance, and still use my instance across the rest of the fediverse.
