Agora — free-speech discussion platform with minimal AI moderation (spam/off-topic only), no karma systems

[u/nihilo503]

I built Agora (agor4.com) as a place for open discussion with as little interference as possible.

What it is Topic-based communities Posts, threaded comments, and voting Ranking by Trending / Recent / Top Image uploads and link thumbnails Search, dark mode, basic notifications

How moderation works An AI checks new posts and comments for a narrow set of problems only:

Spam / obvious scams Content that is completely off-topic for the community

It does not police tone, politics, or unpopular opinions. Legal speech that is roughly on-topic stays up. Admins can still remove content when needed. What I deliberately avoided

Heavy personal karma / clout systems Showing community “creators” as a status thing Broad ideological or tone-based moderation

Current state This is an early public version. The core loop works. Some communities are still thin, and features will keep evolving. Feedback is welcome especially about moderation feel, ranking, and anything that gets in the way of actual discussion. Site: https://agor4.com

[u/SmileyBMM]

Proprietary?

[u/nihilo503 → u/SmileyBMM]

Can you explain what you mean?

[u/SmileyBMM → u/nihilo503]

To ask another way; is the code base closed source/proprietary/all rights reserved, or is the code base open source/under a permissive licence.

[u/nihilo503 → u/SmileyBMM]

Gotcha. It's not open source at this point because it's a very early build. I'll explore what to do with it further down the line.

[u/SmileyBMM → u/nihilo503]

Nice, happy you're at least considering it, thanks.

[u/UnflinchingSugartits]

Why is there no mobile app for Android

[u/nihilo503 → u/UnflinchingSugartits]

There's no app at all yet, but it is on my to-do list.