Projects sharing features with Lobsters

Diaspora is a federated social networking platform that allows users to run and manage self-hosted community servers, known as pods. It operates as a distributed network where independent server nodes exchange content and users using open protocols and standardized communication schemas. The platform is distinguished by its focus on decentralized identity management and privacy-preserving communication. It includes a privacy-focused media proxy that routes external assets through a local server to protect user identity and supports cross-instance account migration, allowing users to move thei

This project is a self-hosted forum software and extensible community platform designed to facilitate online discussions and member engagement. It functions as a REST API discussion engine, providing a backend that manages community interactions and forum data via a standardized JSON interface for external applications. The platform is distinguished by a modular architecture that allows for deep customization through a package-based extension system and an interface extension framework. It employs an extender-based customization model, enabling external modules to modify internal system behav

Flarum is a PHP-based community forum software designed for building and managing structured online discussion spaces. It functions as a self-hosted discussion forum and threaded discussion engine, providing a platform for users to create and participate in community conversations. The platform is designed as an extensible community platform, allowing for customizable forum development through the use of custom extenders to modify system behavior and features. The system includes capabilities for online community management and forum hosting, supported by a console interface for executing ad

TabNews is a community content platform where technology professionals publish, discuss, and vote on programming and tech-related articles and posts. It combines a voting and reputation system with a custom virtual currency called Tabcoins, enabling users to earn tokens for quality contributions and spend them on content promotion or tipping other users. The platform provides a full set of interactive capabilities, including community content browsing and voting, post and comment publishing, and threaded comment trees for hierarchical discussions. Content is rendered from Markdown into format

This project is a self-hosted question and answer platform and knowledge management system. It provides a centralized repository for documented answers and community discussions used to support users and resolve technical issues. The system functions as a plugin-based community forum, utilizing a modular extension system to add custom features and tools. It employs a decoupled architecture with a RESTful API backend to separate business logic from the user interface. The platform covers several domain areas including internal knowledge management, customer help centers, and community Q&A hos

This project is a self-hosted community engine and forum software designed for hosting threaded discussions. It functions as a JSON API community platform, exposing all data and functionality through a standardized interface to support a single-page application architecture. The system is built to be a multi-language discussion board with integrated localization and language pack support. The platform is defined by a modular architecture that allows for extensive customization through an extension-based plugin system. This extensibility enables the modification of core behavior, the addition

Remark42 is a self-hosted, privacy-focused commenting engine designed for websites and blogs. It functions as a standalone application that can be deployed as a single binary or a containerized image across different operating systems. The system allows a single instance to host commenting services for multiple distinct domains through multi-site management. It utilizes an identity layer that verifies users via email, anonymous accounts, or social providers using OAuth authentication. The platform supports threaded conversations with Markdown formatting and provides administrative tools for

SponsorBlock is a community-driven platform designed to automate the skipping of specific video segments, such as sponsorships and intros, during playback. It functions as a crowdsourced database where users submit and categorize video timestamps, which are then retrieved by client-side extensions to intercept and skip unwanted content. The system distinguishes itself through a reputation-weighted consensus model, where community voting and administrative moderation ensure the accuracy of submitted data. To protect user privacy, the platform utilizes hash-based retrieval, allowing clients to

ChatGPT-Shortcut is a prompt engineering toolkit and management library designed to organize, refine, and deploy structured instructions for large language models. It functions as a browser-based prompt injector and a self-hosted prompt database, allowing users to maintain a curated collection of specialized templates. The project features a community prompt gallery where users can publish, discover, and vote on effective templates. It distinguishes itself by integrating these libraries directly into chat interfaces via userscripts or browser extensions, enabling access to prompts through sid

Dokploy is a self-hosted platform-as-a-service designed to simplify the deployment and management of containerized applications and databases. It provides a centralized control plane that decouples administrative management from application workloads, allowing users to oversee infrastructure across multiple server nodes through a unified web interface or a command-line tool. The platform distinguishes itself through an extensive library of pre-configured application templates, enabling the rapid deployment of databases, identity providers, and various productivity or development tools. It sup

HumHub is an open-source enterprise social networking framework designed to facilitate internal communication and team collaboration within private organizational networks. It provides a modular architecture that allows organizations to build secure, self-hosted digital workspaces where users can manage profiles, share content, and organize projects through dedicated collaborative spaces. The platform distinguishes itself through a highly extensible plugin system and a granular role-based access control model. By utilizing an event-driven hook system and a modular architecture, developers can

Forem is an open-source platform designed for building and managing technical communities. It functions as a social publishing engine that enables members to share long-form content, participate in threaded discussions, and engage through social interactions. The platform provides tools for organizations to maintain branded profiles, host community hackathons, and facilitate collaborative learning through structured educational tracks. Beyond its social features, Forem integrates advanced capabilities for AI agent workflow orchestration and codebase knowledge graphing. It allows developers to

Libretaxi is an open-source ride-hailing and transport marketplace platform. It functions as a peer-to-peer logistics coordinator that connects passengers with drivers to organize transportation services without a corporate intermediary. The system utilizes a service provider matching engine to pair users with available local providers based on current system state. It facilitates direct coordination between seekers and providers through a real-time messaging bridge. The platform includes a community moderation system with role-based access control to restrict administrative functions. These

Unkey is an API key management platform and gateway control plane designed for issuing, verifying, and revoking secure keys with global distribution. It provides the infrastructure necessary to authenticate requests and authorize access to protected resources with low latency. The platform distinguishes itself through edge-based request authentication and distributed rate limiting, which allow for the verification of keys and enforcement of request quotas at the network edge. It also features a usage-based billing engine and a self-service developer portal, enabling the tracking of metered AP

This project is a decentralized, privacy-focused messaging platform designed to eliminate reliance on central servers and persistent user identifiers. By utilizing a metadata-minimizing protocol, it ensures that all communication remains end-to-end encrypted and that user identities are stored exclusively on the local device. The architecture relies on relay-based message routing and identity-free network addressing to maintain data sovereignty and prevent the correlation of user activity. What distinguishes this platform is its commitment to traffic isolation and anonymity. Each conversation

dzzoffice is an enterprise collaboration platform and digital workplace automation suite. It functions as a collaborative document management system and a cloud storage gateway, providing a centralized hub for team communication, task tracking, and corporate directory services. The platform is distinguished by its ability to mount multiple external cloud storage providers and private drives into a single unified interface for file management. It supports real-time co-authoring and previewing of office documents through integration with external office servers and maintains a structured intern

Nodeclub is a self-hosted community forum and bulletin board system built as a Node.js web application. It serves as a platform for hosting social communities and managing user discussions. The software incorporates a markdown-based content management system for authoring rich text posts. It includes tools for user account management, registration, and administrative account activation to control platform access. The system provides content moderation through HTML sanitization and post submission rate limits. Additional capabilities include automated email notifications, Google Analytics int

This project is a Python web application that functions as a community discussion forum and social news aggregator. It provides a system for organizing threaded conversations and niche interest groups into themed communities where users can post content and links. The platform incorporates a voting system to determine the visibility and popularity of content. It includes community management tooling for content moderation and user-based discovery. The codebase covers social media platform architecture and high traffic system design, utilizing a relational database schema, a distributed cache

This project is a community discussion forum and management suite for developers. It provides a space for technical questioning, resource sharing, and project showcasing, supported by a contributor reward system that uses leaderboards to track and recognize helpful community members. The system includes a migration tool specifically for importing and archiving community conversations from social platforms into GitHub Discussions. It also features a notification bridge that synchronizes forum activity with external chat channels to provide real-time alerts for new posts. The platform supports

FlaskBB is a forum software for building online communities and structured discussions, developed using the Flask web framework. It provides a system for organizing public conversations, rendering rich text via a Markdown processor, and managing a multilingual localization engine to support global audiences. The platform features an extensible plugin framework that allows for the addition of custom logic and new features to the core forum functionality. Access is managed through a role-based access control system that assigns permissions to user groups to restrict or grant access to specific

Infinity-For-Reddit is an open-source Android client and social content browser for Reddit. It functions as an API wrapper that allows users to browse and interact with Reddit communities on Android devices. The application covers Reddit account administration and community engagement, enabling users to vote on posts, save content, and submit text, images, or videos. It also provides tools for discussion management, allowing users to write, edit, and organize comment threads. The project includes capabilities for monitoring social activity through notifications and following users, as well a

LinkStack is a self-hosted social bio tool and link aggregator used to create personalized landing pages that consolidate multiple outbound links for social media profiles. It functions as a multi-user link manager, allowing multiple registered users to independently manage their own collections of links on a single installation. The platform includes a customizable profile page builder with a selection of templates and themes to control the visual appearance of landing pages. It also provides tools for managing legal and contact page content through a graphical editor. The system includes a

Reddit is a social news aggregator designed for hosting community-driven discussions and content sharing through threaded conversations and user-submitted links. It functions as a platform for managing large volumes of user-generated content, providing a structured interface for programmatic access to site data and core application functionality. The platform utilizes a REST API to expose site data and user interactions to external clients. To maintain performance across large datasets, it employs an external full-text search engine that offloads indexing and query processing from the primary

PRAW is a Python wrapper for the Reddit API, functioning as a REST API client and social media data crawler. It provides a programmatic interface to fetch data, manage account content, and interact with the platform. The library implements a comprehensive OAuth 2.0 client supporting multiple authorization flows, including password, implicit, and refresh tokens, as well as read-only guest access. It distinguishes itself through a rate-limit-aware request scheduler that tracks server-side throttling to prevent API quota exhaustion and employs lazy-loading resource objects to fetch data only whe

Mastodon is a decentralized microblogging platform and federated social network. It allows users to publish short text updates, media, and links to a chronological feed across a distributed architecture that removes reliance on a single central authority. The software enables the creation of self-hosted social servers, giving administrators local control over user accounts and content. These independent instances synchronize user profiles and interactions across a global network of servers using the ActivityPub protocol for cross-platform social networking. The platform includes community co

Isso is a self-hosted commenting system that provides a server and client-side script for adding interactive discussion threads to websites. It functions as an independent platform for managing site-wide comment sections and user profiles on private infrastructure, utilizing a JSON API and a Markdown rendering engine to handle user-generated content. The system is designed to support multi-site comment management, allowing a single server installation to serve independent threads for multiple different domains. It includes a dedicated moderation tool featuring signed URLs and an administrativ

FlutterDouBan is a cross-platform social media client and media community application built with Flutter. It serves as a mobile interface for discovering and tracking books, movies, and music while providing access to community feeds and user profiles. The project functions as an integration sample that demonstrates how to fetch and display live platform data from external APIs. It includes a simulation layer to interchange live network calls with local mock data for development and testing. The application covers a broad capability surface, including media catalog interfaces, community foru