HACKER Q&A
📣 yamrzou

Is there a self-hosted alternative to Facebook groups?


With similar features like moderation, anonymous posts, public/private groups, etc.


  👤 tra3 Accepted Answer ✓
There’s the granddaddy, forum software, like https://www.phpbb.com/.

👤 exz
You can try Buddypress for WordPress, it should be easy to make a small fb clone. https://buddypress.org/

👤 sentientslug
Not one that anyone will use. The benefit of something like Facebook Groups comes from the network effect, in that people want to use it because other people are using it.

👤 fbartels

👤 kosasbest
Buy a XenForo[0] license and call it a day. It has all the staples of social media. 'Likes', 'Follow', 'Friend lists', 'Karma' etc

[0] https://xenforo.com/


👤 kaffeeringe
How about Lemmy? At least it's connected to the Fediverse: https://join-lemmy.org/

👤 slater

👤 antifa
I think if they made something like lemmy but for mastodon users would be cool.

👤 troysk
Discourse.org?