Discuit
Open-source community discussion platform
Discuit is an open-source link aggregator and community discussion platform similar to Reddit, where users create and moderate their own communities. It is the software behind the discuit.org network.
Key features
- Community-based discussions
- Link and text posts
- Self-hostable backend
- Reddit-style voting
Strengths
- Released under the AGPL-3.0 license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Written in TypeScript
- Lightweight — runs in 512 MB RAM
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