Gated is like an event that can be shared publicly but isn't necessarily. For example, a gated community can open their gate and let people on their road for a garage sale, but the rest of the time they keep it closed. For example, imagine I share my location as kind 1 in my gaged community, it makes sense in some context of a discussion that's happening in that group, but is out of place in my global feed. Another example, marketplace items I only want picked up at my meetup. Another example could be a long form article explaining something niche about the meetup, its not private information, but it doesn't make sense to display it alongside global context.

Did you read anything in this thread? I repeatedly said gated != private.