What Harbor Is
Harbor is a social space that belongs to your community. A place where your people post, share, discuss, and stay connected — without ads, algorithms, or someone else's rules. It looks and feels like the social platforms you already know, but it runs on your infrastructure, under your brand, answering to you.
What Harbor Does
Your Community's Social Feed
A familiar timeline where members post updates, share links, start discussions, and engage with each other. The difference: this space belongs to your organization, not to an advertising company. Your name on the door. Your rules on the wall.
Connected, Not Trapped
Harbor isn't an island. Your community can follow and interact with people across a growing network of thousands of independent communities — and they can discover yours. You decide how open or closed the doors are. Connected to the wider world, but always on your terms.
You Set the Rules
No opaque algorithm deciding what your members see. No corporate policy team overriding your community standards. You define what's welcome, how conversations flow, and who gets a seat at the table. Your community, your culture.
Conversation, Not Performance
Posts appear in the order they were written. No engagement-bait amplification. No outrage optimization. Just people talking to people — the way conversation actually works when nobody's gaming it.
Your Brand, Your Domain
Harbor carries your name, your look, your identity. When members share something from Harbor, it links back to your community — not to someone else's platform. Every interaction reinforces your brand, not theirs.
How Harbor Fits
Factory handles the structured work — groups, mailing lists, member management. Harbor handles the informal pulse — the watercooler conversations, the quick shares, the "did you see this?" moments. Command pushes your message outward across commercial platforms. Harbor gives your community a social home that doesn't depend on any of them.
Pricing Alignment
Harbor scales with active members and storage. Entry-level plans include community access with standard posting and moderation. Higher tiers unlock custom branding elements, extended media storage, advanced moderation tools, and fine-grained control over how connected your community is to the wider network.
Built on Open Source
Harbor is built on Mastodon, an open source social platform that powers thousands of independent communities worldwide. Self-hosted, privacy-respecting, and proven at scale.
Why "Harbor"
A harbor is a sheltered place where ships find safety, resupply, and community. It's where crews from different vessels meet, trade stories, and connect before heading back out. Harbor is your community's safe port — connected to the open water but protected, governed, and maintained by you.
Your tools. Your choice.
The tools in our ecosystem are carefully selected — battle-tested, self-hosted, and proven at scale. But we're not rigid about it. We've transitioned platforms before when something better came along, and we'll do it again if the moment calls for it.
Already running something you're happy with? We'll work with it — proprietary, open source, or a mix. We integrate alongside existing systems, run parallel setups during transitions, and bridge platforms so nothing breaks while you decide. The goal is what works for your organization, not what's convenient for ours.