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Why aren't private communities on PieFed federated? (feddit.online)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by anotherpos@feddit.online to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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Is that different for Lemmy? If so, why is PieFed's approach to private communities different from Lemmy's?

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because once it leaves the server there is no guarantee that the remote server understands or even respects the notion that it should be private.

Lemmy doesn't have private communities yet afaik.

[–] julian@activitypub.space 1 points 2 days ago

@povoq@slrpnk.net okay, yes. This is true, once it leaves the local server there are no guarantees.

However I'd have to ask whether there is an acceptable tradeoff in risk of content exposure.

After all, even in local private groups, things could get leaked via copy-paste, screenshots, etc. The weakest link is the social element.