Tildes
Non-profit community discussion platform
Tildes is the open-source code behind a non-profit, ad-free community discussion site organized into topic groups. It emphasizes thoughtful conversation through invite-based membership and gentle moderation tools.
Key features
- Topic-group structure
- Invite-based growth
- Comment tagging
- Ad-free by design
Strengths
- Released under the AGPL-3.0 license
- Active community (1k GitHub stars)
- Written in Python
Tildes replaces
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