Private instance (Instance cannot be seen unless logged in)

comcreator@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 20 points –

Is it possible to make a lemmy instance private were no communities, posts, user profiles and the homepage is not available unless your logged in?

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Before when you can check off federation and private instance, you could not view the instance unless you were logged in but could you view the instance from another instance being logged into another instance or no being logged into another instance?

Or does it only federate in a way were users inside the private instance can access the fediverse but the fediverse cannot access the private instance?

So private checked means that you have to be signed into the local instance to see the content.

Federation means that you can interact on the fediverse.

With both checked, it meant the communities INSIDE the instance would not transmit out... but the rest would work as normal.

it meant the communities INSIDE the instance would not transmit out… but the rest would work as normal.

Lets say you have a private federated instance named salk.world. salk.world users can access, post and comment on other instances like lemmy.world but other instances and users cannot view content on salk.world?