I’d like to go back to forums also but as we’ve seen with gab, parler, stormfront etc they just remove your domain name or kick you off ddos protection etc and you have to have enough money to get around them, most providers won’t even host a site that contains “hate speech”. Also even if you run your own server companies will yank licenses etc so you have to build if from the ground up. I don’t know what poal does but I’m glad they exist. I believe blue host was the last one and they caved after months of being attacked by liberals because a website allowed users to post the names of politicians/bureaucrats by state that were “traitors” lmao. They said it was a hit list and was finally removed. Some of the normal forums I used to frequent disappeared because of “shit”, “nigger” or tranny after being warned. I met this fat jewist looking jew girl millennial in Portland around Halloween 2014 or 15 I was with my GF and we were outside and she was talking about working at a hosting company. I was interested because I was looking for a place that wouldn’t ban the “hate forum” I had been previously running. I asked about free speech and she started getting real angry and telling me what words or topics would get you removed, it was her department that she was partially in charge of. I then asked what if someone said “happy birthday Hitler” and she kept getting more angry. Now this is Portland proper but a blue collar area so it’s a little more moderate but still liberal but she was an unhinged “woke liberal” before the movement really took off. I kept asking innocent things after that and anything and everything would get you banned even mundane crap by this time there’s probably 30 or 40 people out there and everyone is watching me be calm and her freaking out over swear words lmao. People even comes in asking things and it would be banned. I finally said, so any site you host has to be kid friendly and with no swears words at all, that seems really stupid, we’re adults can’t I just put a warning on the page saying “may contain swear words”. She then totally flips, screams at the top of her lungs about Hitler, wishing him happy birthday, niggers, and the innocent stuff I started asking when people had started to come outside(they didn’t here me asking about “hate speech”, Hitler, jews, niggers etc.) When she stormed back inside everyone was asking what happened. I said I had no idea, I was asking about starting a car forum and she said there could be no swearing, I have no idea why she’s talking about Hitler and the other stuff. People started laughing and someone said jews always overact when challenged and think everything is about Hitler. Lmao. My girlfriend later told me to stop baiting people into freaking out but I can’t, it’s so hilarious.