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1. Sam at BLAG (blag@typo.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 04:23:57 JST Sam at BLAG

   • Fedi.Tips 🎄

   Is there a place in the #FediVerse where you can create a closed/private community with discussion boards/forums, etc?

   I'm thinking of something that would have the functionality of things like Facebook groups, Circle, and Telegram groups.

   It would be for members/subscribers to my magazine as a place to share and discuss various sign painting themes, a lot of which currently happens in Facebook groups.

   cc @feditips

   • Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 04:23:48 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

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     @blag

     The idea of the Fediverse is to federate with other servers, to allow people from many different servers to communicate.

     If you want a closed community, it might be better to use a non-federating platform? For example a @nextcloud server lets you have closed discussions restricted to members of that server, including chat and audio/video conferences using Nextcloud Talk.

     Having said that, you can run a Mastodon server in isolated mode too: https://fedi.tips/creating-an-isolated-server/

   • Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 04:33:33 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

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     @blag

     p.s. Another option is setting up a Hometown or Glitch server, they are forks of Mastodon which let you post local-only posts that cannot federate to other servers.