Does discourse have the ability to communicate and share content like Mastodon or even with mastodon, I have a mastodon instance installed and running, and would like to try the same with Discourse Keith

No. But see Federation support for Discourse

Федерированный дискурс

pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) 30.Май.2021 09:03:30 2

Тема		Ответов	Просм.
Federation support for Discourse Feature completed	120	41217	17.05.2024
Sign into Mastodon using a Discourse login - interesting chat at Mastodon's Discourse instance SSO	2	1615	19.06.2018
Discourse and the Fediverse! Blog	0	357	23.04.2025
Sharing links to other services Feature	5	1011	21.11.2024
Shared topics between multiple discourse instances Feature	13	3632	27.03.2022