Jessie Nabein (Old Account)Jun 14, 2023

I'd like to run a #kbin or #lemmy instance specifically to make fediverse friendly communities based on some niche subreddits I interact with.
I would only allow posting in the communities, but no signups for the instance itself; people can simply sign up elsewhere and comment as needed through federation.

Does this sound like a good idea? Is this viable/would it work? Is there a better way? Should I make those communities on existing instances (.ml is overloaded tho)?

#help #fedi #reddit

Psychedelic BeardJun 14, 2023
Show threadAdam Wilbert
@jasonnab I've been thinking about community-only/no-user lemmy instances all day. A lot of companies that would normally self-host a tech support user forum could spin up a lemmy server instead. People wouldn't need to register to ask questions, and new feature announcement posts would get federated.
Jun 14, 2023 at 3:47amIvory for iOS
Show threadPsychedelic BeardJun 14, 2023
@awilbert @jasonnab woah this is genius. I would imagine something like @LinusTech would love something like that
Show threadJessie Nabein (Old Account)Jun 15, 2023

@awilbert the only thing I may have missed with my idea, but I feel is possible from your description:

Can users from other lemmy servers make new posts on a "community-only server"? As in, can they make a new post on a server their account is not on? I can't find anything like this in the documentation, or doing a cursory web search...

I feel the answer is no but, I'm not sure. #lemmy

Show threadAdam WilbertJun 15, 2023
@jasonnab I've made new posts on communities that are hosted on servers that I'm not a member of. I think the only requirement is that you "subscribe" to the community, it doesn't matter where your personal account is actually hosted.
Show threadJessie Nabein (Old Account)Jun 21, 2023
@awilbert excellent to hear!! I'll have to toy with this a bit :)
Show threadJessie Nabein (Old Account)Jun 15, 2023
@awilbert agreed though, that's another idea I had in mind, that tech companies or small groups, or distributors of like films or games or something, could launch a Lemmy instance and post new releases, updates, etc.