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Erlend Sogge Heggen

/microblogmemes is a great community, but there’s something really off about sharing a post from one app to another via a screenshot.

Groups support in will start an exciting new chapter in this story.

blog.erlend.sh/group-convergen

There are good reasons why not everybody is willing to adopt the Lemmy solution. And that is Private Groups and comment permissions. I've been telling people this for a long time and probably sound like a broken record, but when one does private groups, and especially when one adds comment permissions to that situation -- everything changes. Really, everything. So start with that, or one finds they have painted themself into a corner - as nearly every project supporting groups is currently doing.

Thank you for listening to my Ted talk.

@mike thanks!

Do you have a longer writeup of this somewhere for @dessalines & co. to read up on? Sounds like we’re missing a Private Groups extension to FEP-1b12

The Lemmy issues tracking this:
github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issu
github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issu

I’d argue that public groups are the more natural fit for AP though, and therefore still makes sense as the priority. Most fedi communities seem to cover their private group needs with a secure group messenger like xmpp or matrix.

GitHubAdd community privacy oriented settings · Issue #187 · LemmyNet/lemmyBy dessalines

@mike with and/or mainstream OAuth support, a universal protocol for Private Groups might be less important, because at least I could still log into any fedi instance with my fedi-ID to access its private contents.

Right. So instead of creating groups which work the same no matter what kind of group it is, we're going to use not only two different interfaces depending on what kind of group it is -- but two completely different protocols. And/or decide that private groups aren't important to anybody. And somebody else that I don't know is going to make that decision for me, because I certainly don't need privacy if they don't.

This is exactly what I meant by painting oneself into a corner.  

Cheers.

@mike I’m openly postulating here, not prescribing. I don’t know what the optimal solution is.