aprehendedmerlin

Well said I have a understanding of privacy tools that benefit us but as a user not the programmer or anything and that's my pitfall here. My biggest fear is that if I ran a Matrix sever or Fediverse instance or a self-hosted forum like Flarum or humhub on a VPS and since all this is first time for me somehow my mistake put others at risk. I can not accept that. That's what really scares me. I can not just do it and hope for the best that's why I'm looking into already existing options even if they are corporate centralized American entities

Thank you, just want to find a good home for my community most of them are my friends love those guys trying my best making this happen

I hear you you're right a forum would be a good idea. I searched around and found humhub and Flarum both open-source forums you can self-host anywhere you want. Do you think these are good options for me? I have to say in first glance at-least Flarum sounds very basic and my community is going to be media post heavy I'm not sure if a forum is a good idea. A private micro blogging platform would be a much better fit for us but I don't know if such thing even exists

Yes I meant exactly somewhere that is invite only and only members can see the forum/community posts and content

Yes during the war there were a lot of Delta chat relays created by the community here. It is pretty good but no place for building a community

Is there any where I can have a private community in the fediverse? Everything here is too open for us

Never thought to find a fellow Iranian here Thanks you're right matrix seems to be much safer. Just micro blogging aspect seems to be the issue

Honestly I wish it was an accident. They just gonna murder you for being an Israeli spy. I know the risks and gonna be very careful about this

Thanks some great advice here I should add that hostings here are obligated to log anything they can by default. So that's that I'm not gonna do or allow others to do anything too obviously illegal on my instance also it's mostly for my friends and we gonna keep it somewhat private and closed. That stuff gonna take place somewhere else when the time comes

You're right hosting outside is safer for sure but that misses the whole point of keeping people in touch when they cut off the global part of the world wide web making it a local to the country intranet network. I'm gonna start this on my own there are a lot of documentation for me to read through and figure out when I'm ready I'm gonna ask if anyone is willing to help I would be happy to accept

Thanks I'm not nearly technical enough to even pretend I can figure this one out but others are, gonna forward this to them see what they think

I should have explained this part better that's totally on me. They don't cut the whole thing down (atleast not yet) they cut the global part of the world wide web. Making it a local to the country intranet network that they control