[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.