Cross posting this here for visibility as it’s easy to not see the edit. They are adding thoughts and resources to the post as they evolve so maybe keep an eye out for future edits.
I think the questions they have are very reasonable & they have welcomed cis people to discuss on the post (but not elsewhere on the subreddit)
I’m new to Lemmy and doing what I can. Long time member of the subreddit. Maybe some of you all are better than me at discussing these topics with them?
Thank you all for your help so far 🫶
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 whitelisted 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