Could lemmy be used as a private self hosted forum?
And could lemmy be used as a private forum were only registered users and whitelisted users can view, post and comment on the instance. This way you can have a private instance which only paid users of your group or club can join like many membership website forums have.
I believe you’d have to manually edit the database for that. @nutomic@lemmy.ml?
Also through the API, just block the register endpoint so users cant register themselves. And you’d have to block registration over websocket, not sure how that works.