How do you manage to make your subs hidden before registration?
Is it default when using NSFW mark or there’s smt special going on?
It’s sure a killer feature for private teams who wants to have their own little space
Bonus: maybe you know, is there a way to make sure the community cannot be discovered and read without registration?
Besides a private instance with federation disabled (and even then), I don’t think Lemmy is really designed for private communities. Even in NSFW communities, guest users can still see the posts if they have direct links to them, or use a non-lemmy fediverse viewer ( https://mastodon.social/@gfur@yiffit.net ).
Even if there was a way to do it (perhaps with a Lemmy fork), you also have to trust that any instances users are on also comply with your requests. Depending on your requirements for privacy, this may not be something you want to rely on.
Is this even a desirable feature Yiffit turned on, or is it just a quirk of how Lemmy works? It certainly hurts discoverability of content here, IMO.
- willya ( @willya@lemmyf.uk ) English2•1 year ago
Default behavior for NSFW communities. It can be discovered still. Just can’t see any of the posts until subscribing. The behavior it seems you’d want would be done by running your own private instance with federation turned off.
I don’t think private communities would really work on lemmy, due to the federated nature of the platform and how the data is shared to other servers.
I think that NSFW content is hidden from unregistered users by default, the communities will appear empty until the user signs up and subscribes to them (with the show NSFW flag enabled on their account of course).