INeedMana

The content is going to be both text-based and media like videos pictures etc. Currently we are on a telegram super group but that doesn’t cut it and can be lost. Is piefed or Lemmy a good fit for this? I have been here since 2023 and I think it would be. One other issue is privacy the identity of the members should be protected at all costs.

If this is only for having a place to socialize, Fedi will work

But if you want privacy, maybe check out delta chat? https://chatmail.at/doc/relay/getting_started.html
You probably will still need a domain for the relay and somewhere to run it but when used in one account mode, delta relay stores nothing on users. It only relays the messages

They probably won’t even start looking for them

And I’m afraid of the opposite: that most will just upload their IDs everywhere and allow “you don’t have to worry if you have nothing to hide” to become accepted stance

I have also been wondering about this. But

admins and mods are selected sortitionally( randomly) from people who apply

That’s your point of starvation. The application

I think, instead, everyone on the instance should be a voting member. And the decisions should be taken based on some requirement on the votes

1. person one flags a post -> that’s a vote
2. maybe add a header that this post is under review? The voting process should probably be taking some time
3. another person flags the same post -> that’s a vote
4. someone else says it should not be flagged -> that’s a vote in opposite direction
5. ??? <- can be changed by an instance wide vote too
6. post/comment/user is either moderated or not, depending on votes and logic from the previous vote

In order to boost participation, randomly ask an active account to cast a vote on an ongoing discussion

I think there should be some way for “backend admin” to step in and ban something. But they should only do that for spam/csam/scam/etc. Nothing else, no matter how crazy or rude the take is
(btw, maybe the instance could also normalize asking someone to reword their take if it’s rude or can be interpreted badly out of context?)