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Open Source Community & Social Tools

Your community, your rules, your data

projects 69 combined stars ★ 316K refresh nightly
Community platforms are long-term commitments dressed as software choices: five years of forum threads and chat history is institutional memory you cannot re-type. Hosting it yourself keeps that archive independent of any company's pricing page. The category is small but concentrated — Mastodon-class federated social, forum engines, and chat platforms that let you keep your user graph. Federation support (ActivityPub) is the feature to watch if you want your community reachable from the broader fediverse.

All Community & Social tools

Mastodon ★ 50K

Decentralized social networking in your control

rank001 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inRuby typeSocial Networking
maigret ★ 40K

🕵️‍♂️ Collect a dossier on a person by username from 3000+ sites

rank002 licenseMIT written inPython typeSocial Networking
glance ★ 38K

A self-hosted dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place

rank003 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inGo typeSocial Networking
Bluesky ★ 18K

Social media reimagined for community and connection

rank004 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeSocial Networking
Lemmy ★ 15K

Build your own federated discussion community

rank005 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inRust typeSocial Networking
giscus ★ 12K

A commenting system powered by GitHub Discussions. :octocat: :speech_balloon: :gem:

rank006 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeCollaboration & Feedback
owncast ★ 12K

Take control over your live stream video by running it yourself. Streaming + chat out of the box.

rank007 licenseMIT written inGo typeSocial Networking
misskey ★ 11K

🌎 A completely free and open interplanetary-microblogging platform 🚀

rank008 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript typeSocial Networking
core ★ 8.8K

:cloud: ownCloud web server core (Files, DAV, etc.)

rank009 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inPHP typeSocial Networking
Pixelfed ★ 7.1K

Ad-free photo sharing with privacy and federation

rank010 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inPHP typeSocial Networking
GameDevMind ★ 6.7K

最全面的游戏开发技术图谱(Game Development Map)。帮助游戏开发者们在已知问题上节省时间,省出更多的精力投入到更有创造性的工作中去。

rank011 licenseMIT written inPython typeCollaboration & Feedback
alive-progress ★ 6.3K

A new kind of Progress Bar, with real-time throughput, ETA, and very cool animations!

rank012 licenseMIT written inPython typeCollaboration & Feedback
Infinity-For-Reddit ★ 5.5K

A Reddit client for Android

rank013 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inJava typeSocial Networking
writefreely ★ 5.3K

A clean, Markdown-based publishing platform made for writers. Write together and build a community.

rank014 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inGo typeSocial Networking
Fider ★ 4.6K

Open-source platform for collecting and prioritizing feedback

rank015 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inGo typeCollaboration & Feedback
Reddit-Enhancement-Suite ★ 4.5K

Reddit Enhancement Suite

rank016 licenseGPL-3.0 written inJavaScript typeSocial Networking
praw ★ 4.3K

PRAW, an acronym for "Python Reddit API Wrapper", is a python package that allows for simple access to Reddit's API.

rank017 licenseBSD-2-Clause written inPython typeSocial Networking
koala ★ 3.6K

A lightweight Facebook library supporting the Graph, Marketing, and Atlas APIs, realtime updates, test users, and OAuth.

rank018 licenseMIT written inRuby typeSocial Networking
guiadofrontend ★ 2.9K

Guia de Front-end: trilhas, cursos, livros, canais, ferramentas e comunidades para você entrar e evoluir na área.

rank019 licenseMIT written in— typeCollaboration & Feedback
RedReader ★ 2.7K

An unofficial open source Android app for Reddit.

rank020 licenseGPL-3.0 written inJava typeSocial Networking
AlertKit ★ 2.6K

Native alert from Apple Music & Feedback. Contains Done, Heart & Message and other presets.

rank021 licenseMIT written inSwift typeCollaboration & Feedback
guiadobackend ★ 2.5K

Guia de Back-end: trilhas, cursos, livros, canais, ferramentas e comunidades para você entrar e evoluir na área.

rank022 licenseMIT written in— typeCollaboration & Feedback
Artalk ★ 2.4K

🌌 Your Self-hosted Comment System. | 自托管评论系统

rank023 licenseMIT written inGo typeCollaboration & Feedback
pump.io ★ 2.2K

Social server with an ActivityStreams API

rank024 licenseApache-2.0 written inJavaScript typeSocial Networking
SCrawler ★ 2.2K

🏳️‍🌈 Media downloader from any sites, including Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, BlueSky, TikTok, Threads, Facebook, OnlyFans, YouTube, Pinterest, PornHub, XHamste

rank025 licenseGPL-3.0 written inVisual Basic .NET typeSocial Networking
CatchUp ★ 2.1K

An app for catching up on things.

rank026 licenseApache-2.0 written inKotlin typeSocial Networking
sharer.js ★ 2.1K

:on: :bookmark: Create your own social share buttons. No jquery. Just vanilla JS

rank027 licenseMIT written inJavaScript typeSocial Networking
Ech0 ★ 2.1K

Ech0 – An open-source, self-hosted lightweight publishing platform for personal idea sharing.

rank028 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inGo typeSocial Networking
movim ★ 2.1K

Movim - Decentralized social platform

rank029 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inPHP typeSocial Networking
voyager ★ 1.8K

Voyager — a beautiful app for Lemmy and Piefed

rank030 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript typeSocial Networking
talkyard ★ 1.8K

A community discussion platform: Brings together the main features from StackOverflow, Slack, Discourse, Reddit, and Disqus blog comments.

rank031 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript typeSocial Networking
democracyos ★ 1.8K

Democracia en Red is focusing on specific implementations of DemocracyOS. We are working now working with governments and activists all over Latin America. If y

rank032 licenseGPL-3.0 written inJavaScript typeCollaboration & Feedback
deltachat-desktop ★ 1.6K

Decentralized private messenger with chat-shared tools and games for Desktop

rank033 licenseGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript typeSocial Networking
amethyst ★ 1.6K

Nostr client for Android

rank034 licenseMIT written inKotlin typeSocial Networking
Maskbook ★ 1.6K

The portal to the new, open Internet. ([I:b])

rank035 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript typeSocial Networking
MaterialAbout ★ 1.5K

🔖 It's a material-design about screen to use on your Android apps. A developer profile and application information easy to integrate.

rank036 licenseMIT written inJava typeSocial Networking
databag ★ 1.5K

fast & lightweight self-hosted messenger

rank037 licenseApache-2.0 written inTypeScript typeSocial Networking
human-review ★ 1.4K

A visual tool to edit HTML and Markdown files, leave comments like a Google Doc, and send feedback to your AI agent. Works inside your favorite AI harness.

rank038 licenseMIT written inJavaScript typeCollaboration & Feedback
laravel-love ★ 1.2K

Add Social Reactions to Laravel Eloquent Models. It lets people express how they feel about the content. Fully customizable Weighted Reaction System & Reaction

rank039 licenseMIT written inPHP typeSocial Networking
Nora ★ 1.2K

SNS browser. Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Threads, X and more in a single app. No ads.

rank040 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript typeSocial Networking
LogChimp ★ 1.1K

Open-source feedback management for product teams

rank041 licenseNOASSERTION written inTypeScript typeCollaboration & Feedback
pH7-Social-Dating-CMS ★ 1.1K

Self-hosted, open-source PHP 8.2+ software for building white-label dating sites, matchmaking communities, and social networks. Own your code, hosting, database

rank042 licenseMIT written inPHP typeSocial Networking
URS ★ 1.0K

Universal Reddit Scraper - A comprehensive Reddit scraping/archival command-line tool.

rank043 licenseMIT written inPython typeSocial Networking
fedify ★ 1.0K

ActivityPub server framework in TypeScript

rank044 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeSocial Networking
lemmy-ui ★ 1.0K

The official web app for lemmy.

rank045 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inCSS typeSocial Networking
helios-server ★ 927

Helios server

rank046 licenseApache-2.0 written inPython typeCollaboration & Feedback
reddit-mcp-buddy ★ 874

Clean, LLM-optimized Reddit MCP server. Browse posts, search content, analyze users. No fluff, just Reddit data.

rank047 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeSocial Networking
haven ★ 813

Self-hostable private blogging

rank048 licenseMIT written inRuby typeSocial Networking
Autolab ★ 808

Course management service that enables auto-graded programming assignments.

rank049 licenseApache-2.0 written inRuby typeCollaboration & Feedback
annict ★ 784

A platform for anime addicts.

rank050 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inGo typeSocial Networking
mouthful ★ 777

Mouthful is a self-hosted alternative to Disqus

rank051 licenseMIT written inGo typeCollaboration & Feedback
hackertab.dev ★ 775

A Chrome 🌐 & Firefox 🦊 extension to discover the latest developer news and tools in one tab!

rank052 licenseApache-2.0 written inTypeScript typeSocial Networking
uni-apks ★ 681

📦 Pre-built APKs from various patch sources

rank053 licenseGPL-3.0 written inPython typeSocial Networking
omnom ★ 666

A web content preservation service

rank054 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inGo typeSocial Networking
social-network ★ 637

Mini social network that I made as my first web app project.

rank055 licenseMIT written inJavaScript typeSocial Networking
pretty ★ 625

Library for helping print things prettily, in Clojure - ANSI fonts, formatted exceptions

rank056 licenseApache-2.0 written inClojure typeCollaboration & Feedback
django-comments-xtd ★ 621

A pluggable Django comments application with thread support, follow-up notifications, mail confirmation, like/dislike flags, moderation, a ReactJS plugin and Bo

rank057 licenseBSD-2-Clause written inHTML typeCollaboration & Feedback
laravel-comments ★ 600

Add comments to your Laravel application

rank058 licenseMIT written inPHP typeCollaboration & Feedback
chirpy ★ 600

💬 A privacy-friendly and customizable Disqus (comment system) alternate. 注重隐私保护和定制化的评论系统。

rank059 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript typeCollaboration & Feedback
roadmap ★ 567

Open source roadmapping software

rank060 licenseMIT written inPHP typeCollaboration & Feedback
discuit ★ 553

A free and open-source community discussion platform.

rank061 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript typeSocial Networking
Smithereen ★ 548

Federated, ActivityPub-compatible social network server with friends, walls, and groups.

rank062 licenseUnlicense written inJava typeSocial Networking
postmarks ★ 547

a single-user bookmarking website designed to live on the Fediverse

rank063 licenseMIT written inJavaScript typeSocial Networking
wp-discourse ★ 544

WordPress plugin that lets you use Discourse as the community engine for a WordPress blog

rank064 licenseGPL-3.0 written inPHP typeCollaboration & Feedback
upvote-rss ★ 500

Generate rich RSS feeds from Reddit, Hacker News, Lemmy, Mbin, and more

rank065 licenseMIT written inPHP typeSocial Networking
Loops ★ 465

Federated short videos without corporate control

rank066 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inPHP typeSocial Networking
ClearFlask ★ 450

Open-source ideation tool for product feedback management

rank067 licenseApache-2.0 written inJava typeCollaboration & Feedback
Sayr ★ 31

Bridge internal workflows with public collaboration

rank068 licenseNOASSERTION written inTypeScript typeCollaboration & Feedback
social ★ 11

🎉 Social can be used for work, or to connect to the fediverse!

rank069 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inPHP typeSocial Networking

Frequently asked questions

How many open source Community & Social tools are there?

This registry tracks 69 open source Community & Social projects, with 315,794 combined GitHub stars. The list is ranked by stars and refreshed nightly.

What is the most popular open source Community & Social project?

Mastodon leads this category with 50,465 GitHub stars, followed by maigret.

Are these Community & Social tools free?

Yes — every project listed here is open source. Some also offer paid hosted versions alongside the free self-hosted option; the licence for each project is shown on its card.