I know I’ve been posting this a few times over the past few months, but I haven’t started promoting it yet to the world.

This is a hard problem because people expect real-time chat, videoconferencing, livestreaming, privacy controls, proper notifications, profiles, photo uploads and much more.

I have spent over a decade building essentially an open-source Facebook that can federate in more interesting ways than Mastodon, and can support Matrix protocol and much more etc. It has all those features I mentioned out of the box, and is completely open-source.

Short answer, watch this:

https://qbix.com/communities

Or just look at these PDFs:

https://qbix.com/community.pdf

https://qbix.com/alumni.pdf

Longer answer, read this: https://www.laweekly.com/restoring-healthy-communities/

We use it to serve our own local communities:

Here is the code: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

Or if you want, contact me: greg at the domain qbix.com and I can help set it up for you.