Do you guys think local only communities should be a thing?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨KyRoLen@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨main@sh.itjust.works⁩

I’m talking like communities exclusive to an instance where only instance members can participate in. This would be great for communities like The Agora.

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Little8Lost@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
not really, it would make some content very centralised which feels like against the idea of the fediverse.
But there could be some use cases like status reports of server but i dont really think it bothers people on other servers to see it.
Maybe for some chats of the server with the admins it could be useful but there i feel the matrix/mastodon/email option they offer is for that use case better, for the drawback of the need to change the platform.

I know that my POV is very negative about your idea so i would be happy about everyone arguing against me.

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- KyRoLen@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  What if it’s read only access instead?
  
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  - PupBiru@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    kinda makes a very “us vs them” mentality though… seems like it could easily lead to people being required to have accounts on big instances, or ad supported instances having “premium content” or something like that: basically everything we want to avoid
    
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- med@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Local participation communities could still be perfectly visible to other instances. I don’t see many downsides.
  
  The only question is, is there a point? Anyone can sign up and post, it’d just be a kind of rate-limiter for remote instances that don’t police their own sign-ups well
  
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jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yes, we have that in PeerTube already and it’s awesome for private communities like a school, a company, a extended family, etc. where you want to be able to share some stuff mostly with this inner circle.

On my PeerTube instance 90% of the videos are only for internal use of my extended family and friends because we post videos of our Children there which we don’t want to post on the open internet but still want to have the convinience of all the metadata with thumbnails, tags, search, subscribtions, etc.

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GoodKingElliot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Well, it’s useful to have local communities, but I personally find it nice to still be able to join and dad from another instance without hanging to make another account. For instance, I’m subscribed to lemmy.world’s “local” community, which is where I found out about old.lemmy.world and mlmym.org. Likewise, if I lived in a geographic locality like Seattle, I might want to join a Seattle community on a Seattle instance, but I’d still prefer to be able to do it using an account from another instance rather than being forced to make an amount on the Seattle instance.

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- OrnateLuna@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Perhaps you could have a system where you can link different accounts together, as in you have your main account from which you view and post from and a secondary account that just transfers the permission to view and interact with a walled off community. Obviously it would still require you to make a new account and link it but after the initial setup it would be fine.
  
  As to how feasible that would be I have no idea
  
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Rottcodd@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
In the fediverse, ther is no should or should not. There's only can or cannot.

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- PupBiru@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  i mean, that’s a sentiment but there’s plenty of should and should not outside the bounds of can and cannot… that’s what the whole meta defederation debate is about
  
  can we defederate? absolutely… should we defederate? definitely undecided
  
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  - Rottcodd@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    can we defederate? absolutely… should we defederate? definitely undecided
    
    Who's this "we" you're referring to?
    
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Jdreben@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Is this possible by just not federating? I guess that will make the whole server private rather than just a community. So it would have to be a server dedicated to that community.

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Yarla98@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
personally, I would love to see it happen.

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Pxtl@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I think it should be a thing, but only allowed to be created by the admins of the community that they can use for creating tech-support and modmin discussions and whatnot. Not for normal users to create.

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ShadowAether@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Interesting concept, might be a good mod tool too to be able to limit instance interaction on a community level

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