I’m sure this will get clarified in the release notes for 19.4, and I’m probably annoyingly jumping the gun … I’m just curious.
Otherwise, I find it cool to see this feature come out!
I’m sure this will get clarified in the release notes for 19.4, and I’m probably annoyingly jumping the gun … I’m just curious.
Otherwise, I find it cool to see this feature come out!
Ha … it seems like it at least.
I think I was being dumb in asking the question actually.
It’s really just about the circle of users to whom the community is visible.
Local-only … visible only to users of the instance. I’d presumed that it could be writable only to users of the instance such that only users of the instance could post/comment there. But double checking, no, it’s only visible if you’re logged on with an account on that instance … so pretty private in the end actually.
private communities … which are apparently coming … are visible only to approved users, whether on the local instance or not.
And presumably, these will be stackable, so that a local-only + private community will be visible only to approved users from the local instance. So getting pretty closed.
Both will change the landscape of the fediverse, it’s just a matter of seeing if for the better. I’m mostly against private communities because I want everyone to interact, but they can help a lot for things like moderation coordination.