[mmcru]

i agree. recently i desired to create an online community for a small game that probably wouldn't have many users or posts.

subreddits are fantastic for that type of thing, and i like the ease of use and PRAW, however, handing over all of the community's data to conde nast isn't something i'm interested in.

what i'd like is a tool with which to create online communities, which would consist of a message board with upvotes/downvotes, user profiles, and perhaps a small chat system, with good mobile integration. as you said, it should be decentralized. it should also be as secure as possible without requiring non-standard software like TOR.

[fluidcruft]

Reddit is no longer owned by Conde Nast. It was moved to the same parent company that owns Conde Nast and then spun off.

http://www.redditblog.com/2013/08/reddit-myth-busters_6.html

[mmcru]

you're right, i stand corrected. i should have said that i don't want to host my community with a single, likely profiteering entity.

[this_user]

Advance Publications is still their largest shareholder and one of three board seats belongs to the president of Condé Nast. I'm not sure how independent one could call them under these circumstances.

[Phlarp]

dolphins and porpoises.

[pavel_lishin]

> * what i'd like is a tool with which to create online communities*

vBulletin has support for all of this, as does WordPress, and probably a hundred other pieces of software.

The downside, as always, is that you become a sysadmin and moderator and hacker and on-call technician.

[mmcru]

right, perhaps i could use vbulletin or wordpress with another piece of software handling the decentralization and encryption parts, i didn't think that was built in, though.

[mirimir]

See https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/list-of-the-best-enc...

[pavel_lishin]

I'm amused that this pops up two scary security warnings in Chrome, presumably due to the fact that it's a self-signed cert and is using what Chrome says is outdated crypto.

[mirimir]

Yes, it's a self-signed cert. But hey, can we really trust cert authorities? Other than that, SSL Labs gives it an A rating <https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=wilderssecuri.... I wouldn't know about Chrome. Don't trust it ;)

[mmcru]

interesting, hadn't heard of virtually all of these, thanks ;-)