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title: Discourse and Commune

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# Discourse and Commune

These two applications are not in direct competition. They solve similar problems, but in very different ways.

### Commune is..

- Personal; 1:1 as default starting point.
- Primarily Decentralised.
- Optimizing for self-hosting (even p2p longterm).
- Protocol-bound (Matrix spec).
- Software-license seller ([PolyForm NonCommercial](https://polyformproject.org/licenses/noncommercial/1.0.0/)).

### Discourse is..

- Impersonal; many-to-many as default starting point.
- Primarliy Centralised.
- Optimizing for cloud-hosting (SaaS).
- Interface-bound.
- Software-hosting seller.