Syndie? Distributed forums?
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So recently I started looking for good software to use for group discussion, something like a forum. I don't want to rely on an third party provider, though, so I looked for something decentralized. I found Syndie https://www.syndie.de/index.htmls and I thought it sounded very nice, so I installed it to try it out.
I have used it only for a short while, but I wasn't really able to do anything so far. I'm a bit confused about how things work internally, the program crashes sometimes and the UI is confusing and features poorly drawn icons. I find the idea very interesting, though.
Does anyone in here have experience with Syndie? Or do you know about similar software that allows for decentralized forums and discussion? Please, do share your knowledge! :)
I don't know anything about Syndie but AFAIK you need I2P in order to run Syndie. Did you already successfully install and setup I2P? If not, that might be the first thing you want to try. Then you can also directly ask questions on the Syndie forum (http://forum.i2p/viewforum.php?f=29), which is only accessible over I2P.
Syndie just told me that it's reccomended to run I2P. I don't know if it's a requirement or not, but if it is, then that would probably be a deal breaker for me.
(Not that I can't use I2P, but I'd like something that's not as complex. Dealing with I2P AND how Syndie works seems a bit too much.)
Judging from the chart provided on their website (https://www.syndie.de/index.html) I would say it needs at least some sort of anonymizer (like Tor, Freenet or I2P). I2P isn't actually too complex. You might just want to give it a try.
In the chart, there are also full-line arrows pointing to the same archives. At the bottom of the chart it says those represent non-anonymous connection, so I suppose the anonymizers are optional.
If I had to choose, I guess I'd use Tor. I guess I'll just try getting Syndie to work as-is for now, though. I'll see if I can figure it out and make it work.
Depending on your needs a realtime collaborative editor might be useful, e.g. gobby. It's available in the repos. (Actually 2 version are!)
Gobby looks nice, but I need something that doesn't require everyone to be onliene at the same time. I thought about trying out mailing lists, but I found an extension for MediaWiki that might actually work for me, so I'll see if we can use that.
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