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.

    • Wala Walas@lemmy.mlOP
      4·
      3 years ago

      Please share a github link to the private communities feature.

      But it is possible to have a private instance were the instance cannot have contact to the federation or only allow selected users from the federation to view the instance?

      • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
        3·
        3 years ago

        But it is possible to have a private instance were the instance cannot have contact to the federation or only allow selected users from the federation to view the instance?

        Yes. Simply have the following in your configuration JSON file:

        # [other configuration stuff]
federation: {
    enabled: false,
    # [other configuration stuff]
        • Wala Walas@lemmy.mlOP
          2·
          3 years ago

          Is it possible to not have your instance federated but allow a whitelist of users to access the instsnce from outside the instance?

  • Hizeh@hizeh.com
    7·
    1 year ago

    There is a BB forum frontend for Lemmy that replicates that phpBB forum style. Saw it mentioned in a few comments.

  • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
    4·
    3 years ago

    And could lemmy be used as a private forum were only registered users and whitelisted users can view, post and comment on the instance.

    There’s no limited registration or account approval features yet, but you can close the registration completely or open it at any time if you’re an administrator. Anyone can still view the content though.

    • Wala Walas@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      3 years ago

      I could have an instance were registration is completely disables and only have the admin being able to create accounts?

      • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
        3·
        3 years ago

        In theory yes, by disabling registration in the server settings and then directly modifying the database. It’s by no means user friendly though. You’ll need to know PostgreSQL, as well as how the Lemmy backend structures the actual database tables. You’ll also have to manually hash passwords, at least for when creating the account, once the user is logged in, they can change it to their own password which will go through Lemmy’s own hash system (or rather, the authentication library that Lemmy uses).

        • Wala Walas@lemmy.mlOP
          1·
          3 years ago

          Is there a library or command for registering an account on lemmy which can be used to register an account on an private instance? Lets say you payed to be in tier 2 of a group and tier 2 allows for a account on their private lemmy instance. Can it be setup so only paid users in tier 2 can have a lemmy account?

  • cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.