Hi guys, same Iranian guy here, first I want to say I really appreciate you guys helping me, love you guys you all are genuinely amazing people.

I read all your comments in my previous post and one thing I realized I’m not qualified for this at all. This is too dangerous and puts my life and many of my friends at risk.

So in the spirit of being pragmatic here and finding best solution meanwhile I figure that out. Where can we have a private community with moderation and admin tools and multi-topic discussions on the fediverse? Is that even a thing? I know that’s not how fediverse works so the answer is probably a hard No. Then where should we go? Discord have all this but that’s not my preference at all. I know Reddit has private subs but I don’t like reddit like many of you guys. What is the compromise here what do you suggest I should do?

  • CombatWombat@feddit.onlineEnglish
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    2 days ago

    If you are looking for safety, your best bet (and I know this sounds bad but stick with me) is to go the Truth Social route and stand up a threadiverse instance and defederate from everyone. There really isn’t privacy in fedi, but if you don’t federate, it’ll limit your exposure to only the admins of your instance.

    • aprehendedmerlin@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      Thanks I thought about it too. You think running a Mastodon instance defederated from everyone would be a good idea? How private can I get this I prefer to lockdown whole sign up process to approved only applications and no one other than the members should be able to see the community content

      • CombatWombat@feddit.onlineEnglish
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        16 hours ago

        You can definitely lock down signup. I’m not sure if you can prevent users from making publicly-visible posts, though — I think they would have to remember to make posts followers-only.