Community spaces you actually own.
Rooms, voice, threads, roles, bots — everything you'd expect, running on a node the community controls. Federated, encrypted, free forever. The server is the stage, never the landlord.
Also coming to the Zippytal desktop app — one install for the whole ecosystem.
federation first
Two servers. Two nodes. One conversation.
A Community server is never a silo. Any two servers can talk, roles permitting — across town or across the planet. Matrix and ActivityPub bridges are on the roadmap.
Night Gardeners
🌐 Berlin node
Kyoto Tea Club
🌐 Lagos node
Everything you'd expect. Nothing you'd resent.
Rooms, voice, stages, threads
Everything the category expects, day one. Text first, voice riding the Meet SFU.
Roles & permissions
Hierarchies, custom permissions, role templates. Ship a mature community from day one.
Bots in any language
An open, WASM-based API. TypeScript, Python or Rust — run them on your own node.
Federation built in
Any two Community servers can talk. Matrix and ActivityPub bridges on the roadmap.
Portable identity
Your profile, friends and role history travel with your Zippytal account — everywhere.
Moderation that respects users
Appeal workflows, transparent logs, community-auditable rules. Tools, not theatre.
Fully themeable
CSS variables, custom emoji, server-level branding. Your vibe, your rules.
Elastic hosting
5 members to 500,000 across multiple nodes — without ever moving providers.
A community in 60 seconds.
No application form, no server boosting, no credit card. Spin it up, hand out the link, done.
community.zippytal.com/i/night-gardenersBots in your language. Themes in your colours.
import { bot } from "@zippytal/community";
bot.on("memberJoined", async (member, server) => {
await server.channel("welcome").send(
`a wild ${member.name} appeared 🌱 say hi!`
);
await member.grantRole("sprout");
});
// deploy: zippytal bots push ./welcome-bot
// runs on YOUR node. no token begging.your-server · live theme
Kai
the whole server reskins from css variables — pick one →
self-governance
Moderation tools for actual communities.
Zippytal doesn't arbitrate your disputes. Each server runs its own rules, its own appeals, its own logs — with tooling that makes that real rather than theatrical.
Appeals queue
mute appeal — @solopen · 2h
"the bot misread my plant pun as spam" — reviewed by 2 mods
ban appeal — @driftqueued
Transparent audit log
visible to every member
Role editor
Free means free.
Not freemium. Not trial. Not free-with-strings. No boosts to sell you, no Nitro-shaped anything, no surprise ToS change that bans your topic overnight. The community lives on a node, the node answers to the community — and every line of it is open source.
beta · built in the open · apache 2.0