Habitat is a free open-source, self hosted social platform for local communities. It is aimed at fostering local community discussions and discovery of areas of interest. This is why it is built primarily around location. A Habitat instance centers on a specific area, and the local community can make generic posts about that area, or they can make posts about specific locations in that area.

For some background reading you can find out:

- Why I wanted to build this: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-social-net... - Some of the design decisions: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/