@abcdw @pluralistic back when I was at Iowa, we had great social media not only on campus and Iowa City, but out into the farms and really could have had a "Cory Doctorow" forum then, at the turn of the century. ISCA BBS was the main bulletin board, but there were others and I would suggest adding the latest version of phpBB3 to his plan. I'm setting up 4 machines now, with reverse proxies on separate machines