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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.
Before when you can check off federation and private instance, you could not view the instance unless you were logged in but could you view the instance from another instance being logged into another instance or no being logged into another instance?
Or does it only federate in a way were users inside the private instance can access the fediverse but the fediverse cannot access the private instance?
So private checked means that you have to be signed into the local instance to see the content.
Federation means that you can interact on the fediverse.
With both checked, it meant the communities INSIDE the instance would not transmit out... but the rest would work as normal.
Lets say you have a private federated instance named salk.world. salk.world users can access, post and comment on other instances like lemmy.world but other instances and users cannot view content on salk.world?
Correct.