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Lemmy Support

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Support / questions about Lemmy.

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Hello

  1. Is there any possibility to associate local users to groups ?

  2. Is there any possibility to limit access per group ? For example, to be able to subscribe/post/comment only to local groups even the server is federated ?

  3. Any possibility to automatically insert ads on local server on viewing anything ? Servers cost money and monetization is necessary since donation is just an occasional income.

  4. Is it possible to limit federation only to a pre-defined list of internet domains and deny all the rest ?

Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

4 is possible for the communities themselves; but people interacting with them through other domains wont get filtered.

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

Hello

To my knowledge

  1. No
  2. Yes, communities can be set to "local"
  3. Not that I know of
  4. Not sure, sorry
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
  1. How will that block access of local users to remote existing communities (subscribe/post/reply/e.t.c.) ? I understand that only new created communities can be set to local only. Maybe I am wrong, can you explain or point to documentation link ?
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

you can only set a community to only allow local users, not prevent users from interacting with remote communities.

you'd have to either disable federation or set up a script to automatically remove all remote communities, but that also won't be a per user thing, just a per instance thing.

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

Later comment in hope that the tech info will be useful for anybody.

Related to no.4 I presume that there is an outside Lemmy hack to achieve this purpose. The container/VM that is hosting Lemmy should use a separate DNS server that can serve records only for the pre-defined list of internet domains and deny the rest.

Please mind that this is just a supposition, I did not test it !

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

That could indeed work!