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Are there plans to make private communities accessible/usable without an account on the same instance ?
Is it possible to switch from private to public (and vice versa)?

Edit: I guess solutions for these kind of challenges depend on the specific use case. Could be selfhosting, or agreeing on a instance, or sometimes it doesn't have to be a federated software to begin with.

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[-] julian@activitypub.space 4 points 7 months ago

From a technical POV it is theoretically possible but not tested.

Most likely the various softwares would opt out of handling non-public content out of safety.

It is something we'd want to work on in lockstep with all the various devs 🙂

[-] wjs018@piefed.social 6 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I suspect this is why rimu made the initial version of private communities just local and not federated at all. Once things that are meant to remain private start traveling across the network to other servers, it's questionable how private that information can remain, especially if other software is involved.

[-] borisentiu@piefed.social 2 points 7 months ago

I understand that. Thank you!

[-] borisentiu@piefed.social 1 points 7 months ago

Thank you! People could always make a second account on such an instance, maybe even an instance which kind of specializes in it and finds ways to deal with safety challenges.

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