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I'm road tripping around New Zealand at the moment, so I can't reply in depth just yet, but I've been talking to @supakaity about the possibility of spinning up another lemmy instance that is allow list only. We could allow list blahaj.zone, and other safe instances, and host sensitive communities there. It would mean our users still had access to the fediverse at large, but that the sensitive communities were insulated from trolls and bigots.
I'll address the rest of the post in more detail later today when we're not on the road
If this works out it could really demonstrate the strength of decentralized social media. Thank you so much for considering taking on this challenge, and good luck!
I really hope it will work. It sounds to me like it should.
Okay that's rad. I'd been privately thinking of something similar to that myself but I'm new to the fediverse and didn't know whether it was possible. If it's like what I'm thinking you're suggesting that would solve a HUGE issue in our community for balancing visibility (to help others and give information) with privacy (to support each other and avoid bigots). Centralized social media/messaging platforms have never prioritized this need in their design so we are always switching between apps to fulfill either function.
So, broadly, what I'm thinking is two instances. One is public facing, (ie blahaj). Any communities hosted there would be visible to and usable by anyone on the fediverse.
And then a private instance. It would only be visible to users on hand selected instances.
People generally wouldn't create user accounts on the private instance, and instead would access communities on those instances through user accounts hosted on the allow listed public instances. For super sensitive stuff, folks could host user accounts on the private instance, but those user accounts would not be able to access most fediverse content.
Yes this was basically exactly what I was thinking! It's very reassuring to hear that could be possible in the real world and not just in my head :D
Enjoy your trip!
I've been compiling a list of trans users that would volunteer to help set up a transgender surgeries / trans diy comm. A lot from Hexbear, Lemmy, and blahaj. Having a bridge just for the trans communities would be very good, zero tolerance for cis people fucking around and a gigantic admin and mod team would make the project last.
I live in hope that such a space might be where hexbear and blahaj can actually work together, because whatever else we disagree on, we both value the fuck out of trans and gender diverse folk
Let's keep in touch! I'm working on a similar project with an international network of verified trans people, some of us are pretty technically proficient