Mastadon? Lemmy? It would probably have to be standalone so people would’t be turned off from the content from the rest of the fediverse unless there’s a way to prevent federated content from showing on the instance. Just a place to post local news and discussions, maybe a place to sell secondhand. I live near a huge college with a major cs program, so I should be able to get users.
nodeBB might be a good fit. It’s a forum first, with remote content sort of in the background.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Pretty sure lemmy can have the defaults set to local only, so you can keep the federation on, but by default local users only see local stuff.