I’m sure this will get clarified in the release notes for 19.4, and I’m probably annoyingly jumping the gun … I’m just curious.

Otherwise, I find it cool to see this feature come out!

  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Eh, we already have private communities.

    I did mention further down the comment chain the one use case for this I can think of - communities for info and feedback about the specific instance to / from its members; things like donations, financial disclosures, etc. - that you wouldn’t want participation in from anyone not actually using the instance. It has its place; I’m more afraid of seeing popular communities going instance-only for whatever reason, with it being used solely to drive signups on a specific instance.