I’m a member of an active forum site that is being shut down. Members are talking anout how we might replace the forum, but it seems most roads lead to one person running a server / domain, which means we could lose the site again if that person decides he wants to shut it down again. Trying to thi…

I looking for something like this but just very private for a group of about 100

What about Hyphanet and its “Freenet Messaging System”? FMS · hyphanet/wiki Wiki · GitHub

Nostr could be an option for you Nostr - Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays

Maybe not exactly what you are looking for, however I would look at Lemmy, mbin or https://nodebb.org/ All of then federate over activityPub.

Decentralized forum software?

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