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My original question was actually less about private groups, and more about the idea of being able to restrict visibility to a custom list of people. Custom groups is a distinct but related feature. Both seem to be pretty hard in a federated system.
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I hadn't even heard of NodeBB, thanks for mentioning it!
In "Let This Radicalize You", Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba talk about the importance of having both safe spaces where you can be fully yourself among friends you trust, and coalitional spaces where it's important to give people grace when they accidentally harm you. Social media without custom groups is necessarily a coalitional space, but of course naturally people want to use it as a safe space. I think having custom groups would help us do both.
Is there a Fediverse service that allows you to only post to a list of people and/or custom group? Facebook has had this for ages but I believe Mastodon doesn't.
Being able to post to custom lists of follows would help me engage with people on here in healthier ways. For example, when venting, I'd love to be able to limit to friends who I trust not to "well, actually" me (or with whom I care enough to repair with if they do). Instead I often just don't post at all.
