Agora Social Network vs Taverns

Agora is a social network built for real communities. Friends, groups, and the wider fediverse, all in one feed. FEED, YOUR WAY Your main feed is chronological by default. Always your call, never an algorithm's. Want a feed that learns what you love instead? Build a custom feed with Smart Ranking, or use the Feed Builder to include or exclude specific accounts entirely. FRIENDS, GROUPS & PAGES Connect with friends, join groups, and follow Pages for the bands, businesses, and creators you care about — their posts show up right in your feed. Tag a group anywhere with +group-name. CONNECT BEYOND AGORA Every Agora account is also a real Bluesky account. No bridge, no separate signup. Follow any Bluesky account natively, see who follows you back, and fold them into Friend Lists alongside your Agora friends. Agora also speaks ActivityPub, so your public posts are discoverable and followable from Mastodon and other fediverse apps, with replies flowing both ways. Quote posts, custom emoji, and read-only poll rendering keep the fediverse side feeling native, not bolted on. Connections, Friend Lists, and search all work across every network at once. Agora, Fediverse, and Bluesky, in one place. SHARE MORE Post up to 10 photos or a 2-minute video at a time. Comment on any post right from your feed — no tap required. Add your own content warning when sharing someone else's post, independent of the original. BUILT FOR EXPLORING Not signed in yet? Browse a public Explore feed as a guest. Signed in? Switch to a feed of just your Friend Lists whenever you want a quieter timeline. PRIVACY & CONTROL Block anyone, opt individual posts or your whole account out of the Fediverse/Bluesky bridge, and adjust text size app-wide for easier reading. FOR INSTANCE ADMINS Run your own Agora instance? Manage it from your phone — an overview dashboard, federation peers and relays, page and media moderation, and blocked users, domains, and Bluesky DIDs, all built into the app.

Taverns is a community and group chat app for gaming groups, guilds, clans, fandoms, roleplayers, creators, and friends. Create a Tavern, organize it into Halls, and give every conversation, call, event, and watch party a place of its own. Core community features are available without a subscription, including Stage watch parties and file uploads up to 2 GB. WATCH TOGETHER IN A STAGE • Start a synchronized watch party from a YouTube, TikTok, X, Vimeo, Twitch clip, or video-file link • Chat and react over the video, build an Up Next queue, and vote to skip CHAT, CALL, AND SHARE • Use text Halls, direct messages, group chats, threads, forums, announcements, and polls • Join voice and video calls and share your screen • Send files up to 2 GB each • Use up to 700 custom emoji and 1,000 stickers per Tavern, plus GIFs and reactions BUILD A PLACE THAT FEELS LIKE YOURS • Customize Tavern themes, backgrounds, colors, fonts, Hall icons, and profiles • Arrange Halls into categories and create public, private, or staff-only spaces • Discover public Taverns or build your own TOOLS FOR COMMUNITY OWNERS • Set roles and detailed permissions • Publish rules, plan events, manage invites, and moderate members • Keep fast chat and longer forum discussions organized SAFETY AND PRIVACY Report content or accounts, block people, choose who can contact you, manage friend requests, and control how sensitive content appears. Voice, video, and screen sharing are end-to-end encrypted when everyone is using a current Taverns app. A voice Hall is not encrypted while it is being restreamed to a third-party service. Taverns works with the same account on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, Windows, Linux, and the web. Support: https://tav.gg/support Privacy Policy: https://tav.gg/privacy Terms of Service: https://tav.gg/terms Community Guidelines: https://tav.gg/policies/community-guidelines