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Discuit

Open-source community discussion platform

Forums & Community ★ 552 stars Medium setup AGPL-3.0

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.

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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

Is Discuit secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Discuit's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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