Hi guys, same Iranian guy here, first I want to say I really appreciate you guys helping me, love you guys you all are genuinely amazing people.
I read all your comments in my previous post and one thing I realized I’m not qualified for this at all. This is too dangerous and puts my life and many of my friends at risk.
So in the spirit of being pragmatic here and finding best solution meanwhile I figure that out. Where can we have a private community with moderation and admin tools and multi-topic discussions on the fediverse? Is that even a thing? I know that’s not how fediverse works so the answer is probably a hard No. Then where should we go? Discord have all this but that’s not my preference at all. I know Reddit has private subs but I don’t like reddit like many of you guys. What is the compromise here what do you suggest I should do?
Theoretically, one could use Fediverse software to make standalone forums and/or social media platforms. However, not many have done this. Truth Social is the only one that comes to mind.
If you’re interested in running your own, I think you should be able to pick any Fediverse software you choose, install it on a server, and run it in a whitelist mode so that it doesn’t connect to other instances.
If your concern is random people being able to read and scrape your posts, I know that some Pleroma instances are also configured to not allow any pages or profiles to be public-facing, instead requiring a login if you want to visit anything other than the landing page (and even then, this restriction sometimes prevents any content in the feeds from loading when you are on the landing page).