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lilavszusam

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

lilazusam
Score76/10044/100
Rank in category#3 of 62 in Game Servers#58 of 69 in Social Networks & Forums
GitHub stars18 921223
Stars, last 30 days+157+0
Stable releases, 12 months02
Latest release—0.6.1 · 2 Mar 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageScalaPHP

Which one should you pick?

lila scores 76/100 against 44/100 for zusam, so it is the safer default.

zusam ships more often: 2 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for lila.

If you want the quickest setup, zusam is easier to run; lila needs more configuration.

lila is growing faster right now (+157 stars in 30 days).

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