
Six software companies - LearnWorlds, Open Social, Social Strata, Bevy, Forumbee and Bettermode - are selling the same quiet promise: stop renting your audience from Facebook and Discord, and build a community you actually keep.

Gravyty, Podia, Khoros, Bevy, Personify and a crowd of rivals all sell the same promise - that your audience is an asset you control. The platforms making that promise keep getting bought, merged and switched off.