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Ok so here’s my pitch:

So far I really like PieFed, and I’m hoping to set up some kind of online forum as an adjunct to an in-person discussion group in my city.

For now, I expect it will probably be non-federated, and invite-only.

Those things are already features in PieFed as far as I can tell (well, maybe not invite codes exactly, but using approved signups would work roughly the same way in this case).

Looking to the future though, here’s what I’d be super excited to see: the option to make some of the communites visible to non-logged-in visitors, and/or federatable with other instances, while still keeping most communities semi-private; that is, only visible to registered & logged-in local server accounts.

Bonus points if some of those semi-private communities could instead be even more private, i.e., posts only visible to approved members of that specific community. To be fair, maybe the chat functionality is good enough in those cases, I dunno :)

I’m guessing this is a big ask. However, this particular group may not need those functions near-term, so I’d be especially eager to spin up a PieFed server if I knew those kinds of things might be in the pipeline.

My other viable choice right now is Discourse, but like, it’s kinda corporate, and it’s really JavaScript-heavy, which to me is kind of an equity issue when it comes to data plans and user device speed etc.

Thanks!

Yeah I dunno, that suggestion seems like it would defeat the entire purpose of having separate communities in the first place.

Ah - thanks, it’s great to hear this is being worked on!

A real ‘block’ option would be nice on the threadiverse. Right now all we have is a glorified ‘mute’ button. A block, to me at least, implies that the blocked person can’t see or interact with my posts or comments (and not simply that I can’t see their posts/comments).

It might complicate things if people who block each other post the same link to a community though. And I assume that federation likely makes implementing this more difficult as well … but still, it would be nice!

Hmm. In a sense, votes aren’t real, but if that’s true, then why do they exist at all?

And if you don’t like that your votes are public, then perhaps simply don’t vote, since the votes aren’t real anyway?

Oof, I knew what this link was gonna be before I clicked it. Maybe even the option to restrict up/downvotes to subscribers as well - the pile-on the OP was getting there was ridiculous (although tbf their post was not within the community in question)

If PieFed is going to hide things that get heavily downvoted, then avoiding brigading seems necessary.