Could lemmy be used as a private self hosted forum?
And could lemmy be used as a private forum were only registered users and whitelisted users can view, post and comment on the instance. This way you can have a private instance which only paid users of your group or club can join like many membership website forums have.
Fully private: Yes. Private but federating? Not really. I’d want that for my single-user-instant, but it’s not really possible. What you can kinda do, is blocking access to all but the federation endpoints via IP (it broke federation when I tried it, but I didn’t have time to try too much, just the hardcoded IP is kinda making it a no-go anyway), but not for being logged in.
edit: Gawdsdamnit, another 2 year old post.