Fluxer: A chat app that puts you first
fluxer.app
Fluxer is an open-source, independent instant messaging and VoIP platform. Built for friends, groups, and communities.

Several years ago I had a Discord community with hundreds of users. This was an IRL community, so it was very difficult to abandon but I did anyway. Tried to get people to leave but they were unwilling. So I handed it off to another member and deleted my account. Now that admin has contacted me again and let me know everyone is ready to leave. I found Fluxer yesterday while poking around #Discord on Mastodon and I think we’re going to end up there.

Fluxer is still very early in development and they have plans for many advanced features in the roadmap but it’s very feature-rich today. Current monetization plan is freemium + Patreon-like monetization. I understand that may be a dealbreaker for some but there aren’t a ton of other great options, and everything is open source, and self-hostable, and if you do, you get all of the premium features for free, while still communicating with the main instance over federation (in roadmap). That still leaves it susceptible to Mattermost-style enshittification but honestly rolling back updates solves most of those style of problems.

  • deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zipEnglish
    537·
    4 days ago

    Fucking hell, can people please just band together and build one piece of software that works well and is federated? There are like 17 of these clones already, this is doing no one good.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      19·
      4 days ago

      As long as they’re federated, does it matter if there’s multiple different softwares? Wouldn’t they be able to communicate with each other, so it’s not like each would be in its own silo?

      Or can matrix only talk with matrix, IRC with IRC, XMPP with XMPP, etc?

      As long as it doesn’t result in silos, I think having multiple choices is a good thing. It gives you options, and can grow in multiple directions to suit different needs. Plus there’s redundancy so no single point of failure. Part of what’s good about open source is that anyone can fork it, right?

      • artyom@piefed.socialOPEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        Or can matrix only talk with matrix, IRC with IRC, XMPP with XMPP, etc?

        Yes, they have to be the same protocol to communicate.

        • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          9·
          3 days ago

          “happy” isn’t a noun, so no one would try to make it plural.

          “Software” is a noun, but the plural version is often the same, i.e. “installed a lot of software.”

          But since I was discussing “multiple different” instances of software, it made sense to treat each one as a discrete “software,” thus I used “softwares” to communicate “multiple different discrete instances of software.”

          Just like how “people” is plural for “persons” but “peoples” means “multiple groups of people.”