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I had an idea about this today but I don’t know enough about Lemmy to confirm it. Thought I’d run it by you just in case.

Could you create a post and lock it normally, then directly edit the postgres row to unlock the post? I’m wondering if this would federate the lock but not federate your unlock causing all outside users to see a lock and all internal users see an unlocked post.

Possible edge case: users who subscribe to the community after the unlock will receive the initial data dump of posts and this will include the post in its current unlocked state.

However, this would be an easy way to block the majority commenting on a post while maintaining a seemless experience for your internal users.

If the intention is to have an internal, instance-only post, I believe such a thing could be enforced with an automoderator bot. I had a lot of success throwing the Lemmy API into an AI and generating my own moderator bot from that. Could work for you.

I wonder if they’ll renew the twitter.com domain name