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moderation

6 catalogue entries use this topic; each Project's license policy is labeled separately.

Discourse

Discourse

Open-source community platform for discussion, chat, and support

Stars47.9K
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LicenseGPL-2.0

Discourse is a self-hosted community platform that combines threaded discussion with built-in chat, search, and moderation tools.

Alternative toSlackDiscord
NodeBB

NodeBBOpen

Real-time Node.js forum software for online communities

Stars15.2K
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LicenseGPL-3.0

NodeBB is a self-hosted, GPL-3.0 community forum platform built on Node.js with real-time chat, notifications, and federated sharing.

Alternative toFlarum
Lemmy

LemmyOpen

Federated link-aggregation and discussion platform for self-hosted communities

Stars14.6K
Commitjust now
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Lemmy is a federated link-aggregation and discussion platform where independent servers interoperate, so a person on one server can subscribe to communities, vote, and comment across any other. It works like a self-governed Reddit: communities host link and text posts with nested comments, votes surface widely endorsed items, and moderators set local rules with site-wide admin controls behind them.

Stoat

StoatOpen

Open-source group chat with servers, voice, and self-hosting

Stars3,389
Commitjust now
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Stoat is a free open-source group chat app for friends and communities, with servers, voice chat, and file sharing, available hosted or as optional self-hosting.

Alternative toDiscord
Ethora

EthoraAIOpen

Open-source chat and AI-agent SDKs for web and mobile apps

Stars549
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

Ethora is an open-source chat and AI-agent platform with SDKs that add messaging, chatbots, and RAG search to web and mobile apps.

Alternative toMattermostElement
Storyden

StorydenOpen

Open-source forum and shared library for lasting communities

Stars339
Commitjust now
LicenseMPL-2.0

Storyden is a self-hosted forum plus shared library for links, pages, and directories, deployed with Docker on your own server.

Alternative toDiscourse