this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
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Okay that's rad. I'd been privately thinking of something similar to that myself but I'm new to the fediverse and didn't know whether it was possible. If it's like what I'm thinking you're suggesting that would solve a HUGE issue in our community for balancing visibility (to help others and give information) with privacy (to support each other and avoid bigots). Centralized social media/messaging platforms have never prioritized this need in their design so we are always switching between apps to fulfill either function.
So, broadly, what I'm thinking is two instances. One is public facing, (ie blahaj). Any communities hosted there would be visible to and usable by anyone on the fediverse.
And then a private instance. It would only be visible to users on hand selected instances.
People generally wouldn't create user accounts on the private instance, and instead would access communities on those instances through user accounts hosted on the whitelisted public instances. For super sensitive stuff, folks could host user accounts on the private instance, but those user accounts would not be able to access most fediverse content.
Yes this was basically exactly what I was thinking! It's very reassuring to hear that could be possible in the real world and not just in my head :D