#Lemmy wants to have private communities!
See https://lemmy.ml/post/12014733
> Private spaces are a fundamental aspect of human communication. They allow discussing sensitive topics without interruption from outsiders. Supporting private communities in Lemmy gives a major new use case for talking among friends or within organizations. This use case is currently not covered by major Fediverse projects.
Novel for the #fediverse it seems.
@maegul “groups” that has been talked about as a general shared spec has that as a use case.
Making that work across systems would be most powerful but also hard to coordinate.
I don't know how secure-able it would be but doing this over federation sounds naturally fraught to me ... ?
@boris Though they've added local only groups/communities first (not shipped yet AFAIK), so local + private would be an option and attractive for keeping things safer I presume.