We will watch this with great interest.

Self-hosted deployments won't include any traces of Plutonium, and nothing is paywalled. You can still configure your own tiers and limits in the admin panel.

Thanks for bearing with me. Development on Fluxer is about to get much easier, and the project will be made sustainable through community contributions and bounties for development work. Stay tuned – there's not much left now.

I thought I could take it a bit easier while shipping this stabilising update, but Discord's recent announcement has changed things.

As soon as the refactor is live, I'll interact more actively and push updates to this repository more frequently. The remaining parts of the refactor are currently being worked on and are being tested by a small group of testers before I'm comfortable pushing everything publicly. After that, all work will happen openly in public.

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EDIT: The Fluxer dev has agreed to remove the CLA!

Just a heads up to anyone interested in Fluxer: I was just informed today of a huge red flag for Fluxer; it has a contributor CLA that could allow it to change to a non-FLOSS license in the future. I was hopeful for it previously, but that kills it for me.

Also @irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com

EDIT 2: The Fluxer dev agreed to remove the CLA!

EDIT: Just a heads up to anyone interested in Fluxer: I was just informed today of a huge red flag for Fluxer; it has a contributor CLA that could allow it to change to a non-FLOSS license in the future. I was hopeful for it previously, but that kills it for me.

Of all the discord clones, this one does look promising I must admit, especially since the dev has mentioned they'd be open to incorporating federation and some encryption abilities down the road. The GPL license is a good mark, and the dev seems pretty chill. Downside is that's it's still very rough and in more of a visually polished alpha state. The dev mentioned they're about to release a major refactor of the codebase, which they hope will fix the sluggishness the server is experiencing after an influx of new users from the Discord dumpster fire.

Personally, I'd still suggest Movim over Fluxer at the moment.

Movim already has a proven scalable back-end, it's already federated, already provides good encryption, has 90% feature parity with Discord such as Chats, group video calls, screen-sharing with audio (requires chromium browser to share audio for now), its made in the EU, and it's ready right now, not some time in the future (if Discord users fleeing discord try Fluxer, they'd be likely to bail on it due to the current bugs and just go back to discord). The Movim developer is also currently working on adding in discord-like channels and rooms.

(Movim also doesn't require an email to create an account, and runs right in your browser, so I'd highly recommend quickly giving it a shot with a friend to see if it can meet your needs! :D)

But that's just my 2 cents. Fluxer is one to keep an eye on for the future, though.

I feel like stuff like this works for people who want to move one very specific group of discord, but to replace discord's ecosystem in a more general sense, federated protocols like matrix are necessary.

Ever since Discord made their stupid announcement there's been a flood of replacement messaging programs that made me think of the famous xkcd "industry standards" strip.

Message limits are a bit frustrating, and I need to more about privacy but this looks promising

I'm avoiding stoat/revolt given the controversy. fluxer seems pretty good as far as centralized alternatives go.

Is the communications encrypted?

How does one go about self hosting something like this, I’ve never done it before, but im not too keen on giving discord my ID or a face scan (definitely not both)