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Can Lemmy be used as a self hosted forum or forum that is connected to the fediverse? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Could lemmy be used as a private self hosted forum?

And could lemmy be used as a private forum were only registered users and whitelisted users can view, post and comment on the instance. This way you can have a private instance which only paid users of your group or club can join like many membership website forums have.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Private communities are not implemented yet, but are on the roadmap.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Please share a github link to the private communities feature.

But it is possible to have a private instance were the instance cannot have contact to the federation or only allow selected users from the federation to view the instance?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

But it is possible to have a private instance were the instance cannot have contact to the federation or only allow selected users from the federation to view the instance?

Yes. Simply have the following in your configuration JSON file:

# [other configuration stuff]
federation: {
    enabled: false,
    # [other configuration stuff]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Is it possible to not have your instance federated but allow a whitelist of users to access the instsnce from outside the instance?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

You can allow/block access by instance, but not by user.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

You can search for it on the github issues.