Communication - Social Networks and Forums#

Social Networking and Forum software.


Software#

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Akkoma#

Federated microblogging server with Mastodon, GNU social, and ActivityPub compatibility.

Website Source Code

★? ? Elixir Docker AGPL-3.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Answer#

Knowledge-based community software. You can use it to quickly build your Q&A community for product technical support, customer support, user communication, and more.

Website Source Code

★14408 2025-04-29 Docker Go Apache-2.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Artalk#

Comment system built in Golang, providing a lightweight and highly customizable solution for adding comments to your website.

Website Source Code

★1893 2025-02-02 Go Docker MIT

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


AsmBB#

Fast, SQLite-powered forum engine written in ASM.

Website Source Code

★? ? Assembly EUPL-1.2

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


BuddyPress#

Powerful plugin that takes your WordPress.org powered site beyond the blog with social-network features like user profiles, activity streams, user groups, and more.

Website Source Code

★234 2025-04-19 PHP GPL-2.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Chirpy#

Privacy-friendly and customizable Disqus (comment system) alternate.

Website Source Code Demo

★576 2025-04-01 Docker Nodejs AGPL-3.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Coral#

A better commenting experience from Vox Media.

Website Source Code

★1940 2025-05-09 Docker Nodejs Apache-2.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


diaspora*#

Distributed social networking server.

Website Source Code

★13497 2025-04-13 Ruby AGPL-3.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Discourse#

Advanced forum / community solution based on Ruby and JS.

Website Source Code Demo

★43972 2025-05-12 Docker GPL-2.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Elgg#

Powerful open source social networking engine.

Website Source Code

★1653 2025-05-12 PHP GPL-2.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Enigma 1/2 BBS#

Enigma 1/2 is a modern, multi-platform BBS engine with unlimited “callers” and legacy DOS door game support.

Website Source Code

★578 2025-02-23 Shell Docker Nodejs BSD-2-Clause

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Flarum#

Delightfully simple forums. Flarum is the next-generation forum software that makes online discussion fun again.

Website Source Code

★15733 2025-05-02 PHP MIT

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Friendica#

Social Communication Server.

Website Source Code

★1560 2025-05-10 PHP AGPL-3.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


GoToSocial#

ActivityPub federated social network server implementing the Mastodon client API.

Website Source Code

★4138 2025-05-11 Docker Go AGPL-3.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Hatsu#

Bridge that interacts with Fediverse on behalf of your static site.

Website Source Code

★191 2025-04-03 Docker Rust AGPL-3.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Hubzilla#

Decentralized identity, privacy, publishing, sharing, cloud storage, and communications/social platform.

Website Source Code

★? ? PHP MIT

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


HumHub#

Flexible kit for private social networks.

Website Source Code

★6432 2025-05-12 PHP AGPL-3.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Isso#

Lightweight commenting server written in Python and Javascript. It aims to be a drop-in replacement for Disqus.

Website Source Code

★5145 2025-04-21 Python Docker MIT

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Lemmy#

Link aggregator for the fediverse (alternative to Reddit).

Website Source Code

★13768 2025-05-12 Docker Rust AGPL-3.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Loomio#

Collaborative decision-making tool that makes it easy for anyone to participate in decisions which affect them.

Website Source Code

★2445 2025-05-05 Docker AGPL-3.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Mastodon#

Federated microblogging server.

Website Source Code Clients

★48252 2025-05-12 Ruby AGPL-3.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Misago#

Fully featured modern forum application that is fast, scalable and responsive.

Website Source Code

★2623 2025-05-05 Docker GPL-2.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Misskey#

Decentralized app-like microblogging server/SNS for the Fediverse, using the ActivityPub protocol like GNU social and Mastodon.

Website Source Code

★10557 2025-05-12 Nodejs Docker AGPL-3.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Movim#

Modern, federated social network based on XMPP, with a fully featured group-chat, subscriptions and microblogging.

Website Source Code

★1788 2025-05-11 PHP Docker AGPL-3.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


MyBB#

Free, extensible forum software package.

Website Source Code

★1147 2025-05-07 PHP LGPL-3.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


NodeBB#

Forum software built for the modern web.

Website Source Code Demo

★14590 2025-05-12 Nodejs Docker GPL-3.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


OSSN#

Social networking software that allows you to make a social networking website and helps your members build social relationships, with people who share similar professional or personal interests.

Website Source Code

★1122 2025-05-08 PHP CAL-1.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


phpBB#

Flat-forum bulletin board software solution that can be used to stay in touch with a group of people or can power your entire website.

Website Source Code

★1922 2025-05-12 PHP GPL-2.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


PixelFed#

Pixelfed is an open-source, federated platform alternate to Instagram.

Website Source Code

★6579 2025-04-14 PHP AGPL-3.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Pleroma#

Federated microblogging server, Mastodon, GNU social, & ActivityPub compatible.

Website Source Code

★? ? Elixir AGPL-3.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


qpixel#

Q&A-based community knowledge-sharing software.

Website Source Code

★406 2025-05-09 Ruby AGPL-3.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Redlib#

An alternative private front-end to Reddit, with its origins in Libreddit.

Website Source Code

★1988 2025-04-21 Rust AGPL-3.0 ⚠ Anti-features

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


remark42#

A lightweight and simple comment engine, which doesn’t spy on users. It can be embedded into blogs, articles or any other place where readers add comments.

Website Source Code Demo

★5124 2025-04-29 Docker Go MIT

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Retrospring#

A free, open-source social network following the Q/A (question and answer) principle of sites like Formspring, ask.fm or CuriousCat.

Website Source Code Demo

★282 2025-04-28 Ruby Nodejs AGPL-3.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Scoold#

Stack Overflow in a JAR. An enterprise-ready Q&A platform with full-text search, SAML, LDAP integration and social login support.

Website Source Code Demo

★880 2025-05-08 Java Docker K8S Apache-2.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Simple Machines Forum#

Free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes.

Website Source Code

★649 2025-05-09 PHP BSD-3-Clause

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Socialhome#

Federated and decentralized profile builder and social network engine.

Website Source Code Demo

★367 2025-05-02 Docker Python AGPL-3.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Takahē#

Federated microblogging server. Mastodon, & ActivityPub compatible.

Website Source Code

★1157 2024-08-28 Docker BSD-3-Clause

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Talkyard#

Create a community, where your users can suggest ideas and get questions answered. And have friendly open-ended discussions and chat (Slack/StackOverflow/Discourse/Reddit/Disqus hybrid).

Website Source Code Demo

★1759 2025-04-28 Docker Scala AGPL-3.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


yarn.social#

Self-Hosted, Twitter™-like Decentralised micro-logging platform. No ads, no tracking, your content, your data.

Website Source Code

★? ? Go MIT

Communication - Social Networks and Forums


Zusam#

Free and open-source way to self-host private forums for groups of friends or family.

Website Source Code Demo

★203 2024-10-31 PHP AGPL-3.0

Communication - Social Networks and Forums