a cozy community platform built for world-wide web togetherness.
We're currently in alpha, usable by early adopters. Sign up for your own space on app.commune.sh to try it!
In the glory days of web 1.0, our social websites would prominently link out to other places via lists known as 'forum affiliates', 'blogrolls' or 'webrings'. Communities we could vouch for.
It was a time of greater connectivity between communal web spaces, each serving as a portal to a tightly knit but infinitely expansive hinterland of digital villages.
We wanna bring back the good vibes of the old web neighborhoods. Not by regressing to a bygone era, but by building the web 1.½ that should have been.
- a tool for community builders: Download the alpha-release on GitHub.
- a place for fellow creators and creatives to congregate: join app.commune.sh today.
- a network: Every Commune space is part of the Matrix federation.
- We're building Commune on top of the Matrix protocol, extending it with community features.
- Whereas Matrix is private-first, Commune is public-first.
- Commune is a full-stack app, but as a client it can (soon!) interact with any Matrix server.
- Commune instances can in turn be viewed by any Matrix client; it's all federated. Some features however can only be accessed via the Commune client.
What starts as an ephemeral chat message might evolve into an intricate thread with multiple incoming/outgoing connections. Commune facilitates this progression by making chat-view and board-view two different view modes of the one same channel.
Make your digital village gate-less, so new visitors may freely look around before making themselves known. Grant informative threads a proper place on the indexable web.
Your friends are just a click away, discoverable through Related Space lists. Better yet, closely aligned communities can carry common channels together, e.g. syndicating a single #offtopic channel across multiple spaces.
While the Matrix network is its own federated system, Commune also connects with the larger fediverse, i.e. Mastodon, Lemmy et.al. Log in with your fediverse account, verify links and more.
Already got a community on Discord? No worries, we'll sync it up for you, and suddenly your Discord server will be fully backed up and web-readable via its Commune bridge.
Avoid the complexities of encryption in the nascent stages of community. Opt-in to the advanced security features of Matrix when the time is right.