[LinuxBender]

Hosting your own server gives you full control. That said, it puts more responsibility and liability on you to do content moderation, assuming you make it public.

Some people do a hybrid approach. A public forum/board to share content, with some rules. Then another private server for a smaller group of friends to share anything.

You can also create a Tor Hidden Service.

[tazjin]

The thing is that for the more niche kink communities on Tumblr the fact that everyone was using it was what made them work.

You will never get that kind of activity on a Tor service. If you look at the more obscure, older fetish-related networks which often still have active IRC channels and such you'll notice that a large portion of people there are quite techy.

I don't think that's true for the wider kink community at all, it's just that the barrier of entry & discoverability of such communities will exclude the less techy folks.

[LinuxBender]

I agree. If something isn't happy-clicky and already works from their existing browser, most won't bother. Perhaps you could develop a simple innovative way to make Tor easy for that community to adopt. Maybe a small number of them try it out at first.

[qwerty456127]

> Hosting your own server gives you full control.

And exposes you to all kinds of problems to care about including DDoSes, pwners, lawyers, hardware failures etc.

> You can also create a Tor Hidden Service.

So (I feel sad about this but this is how it seems) almost nobody will ever find it, but child porn lovers and other kinds of ultimate weirdos will and you will have hard time banning them.

[LinuxBender]

I agree with all of this. I only mention it because it is one valid option. You would have to find ways to lower the bar to access for your particular community.