and finally, what if we had invite-only/private communities?
We do have those, you can have instances not federate and be invite only. But lets face it discord does that better.
I think that together these are pretty reasonable and would satisfy OP.
None of those are reasonable and most break the very core concept of federation. What you are proposing is to burn down the fediverse in order to protect groups who are not asking for this.
you can have instances not federate and be invite only.
but thats not what I said, private instances are not the same as private communities. I want to be able to join a private community with my existing account, for example.
break the very core concept of federation
elaborate.
I proposed 3 things. how do they break the very core concept of federation more than having a defederated instance just to host a community, forcing people to make a new account?
sure, i get the private communities is probably difficult to federate. I dont accept that it “breaks the very core concept of federation”.
but community/instance level user blocklists? how could those possibly break the core concept of federation when community banlists exist?
We do have those, you can have instances not federate and be invite only. But lets face it discord does that better.
None of those are reasonable and most break the very core concept of federation. What you are proposing is to burn down the fediverse in order to protect groups who are not asking for this.
but thats not what I said, private instances are not the same as private communities. I want to be able to join a private community with my existing account, for example.
elaborate.
I proposed 3 things. how do they break the very core concept of federation more than having a defederated instance just to host a community, forcing people to make a new account?
sure, i get the private communities is probably difficult to federate. I dont accept that it “breaks the very core concept of federation”.
but community/instance level user blocklists? how could those possibly break the core concept of federation when community banlists exist?