Instant messaging and VoIP application
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I am so so confused by all the messaging apps, what do people use discord for that other apps cant do
I played online for the first tike since AC Brotherhood the other week and realised a whatsapp callnisnt ideal but I dont know what improvements are needed
Discord has communities.
Want to build a voron 3d printer? -> discord.
Want to be part of the development of some Indy game? -> discord.
Want to engage with some community from a YouTube channel? -> discord.
Some GitHub project? -> discord.
The list goes on….
Is it open or locked to the platform? All them conversations are private then, people cant find them in five years when they have the same issue
character limit, upload limit, community limit, no username per server unless you pay for a subscription? hard pass.
This won’t become federated simply because of the fact you have to pay to unlock these features. If I made a fluxer server then I wouldn’t charge my users for having a stupid animated gif avatar. I know discord is shit but this thing ain’t the alternative.
I’m repeating it again: Holy smokes, what a ride. Fluxer is taking off much earlier than I’d expected.
I know it’s hard to resist, but please wait a little longer before you dive deep into the current codebase or try to set up self-hosting. I’m aware the current stack isn’t very lightweight. I’m working on making self-hosting as straightforward as possible and the development environment likewise.
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 announcement in Februrary has changed things.
There’s just been a lot of work involved in keeping the production deployment up and running, handling trust & safety concerns, answering support emails, handling billing issues, and working on the refactor at the same time. I’m really excited to open up development and make it easier for others to contribute, and I can’t wait to see what the community builds on Fluxer!
As soon as the refactor is ready (not much longer now!), I’ll enable PRs and interact more actively and push updates to this repository more frequently. The remaining parts of the refactor are currently being worked on and being tested live in production that has over 125,000 users (and we’re only two full-time employees for now). After that, all work will happen openly in public.
The team is also growing, though we remain small and can’t offer very competitive salaries just yet – but if you want to work part-time or contract on projects, or you think you’re a great fit for the roles we’re hiring for (though not as actively across all roles at this time, but we’ll keep you on file for when we are), check out the careers page :D
All those features are only paid if you use their servers. They’re still reworking their self hosting version (they had one but they’re simplifying it) and if you self host all that is free.
character limit, upload limit, community limit, no username per server unless you pay for a subscription? hard pass.
These limits exist on their own servers. When you host your own server none of this exists, unless you put them there.
Isn’t that just for the version they host? Most of the docs say all features are or will be available in the source code. Although if federated and interacting with their hosted communities would you be restricted?
They are also working on a new update which will lay groundwork so they can post more concrete self hosting info.
but how does the “subscription” stuff work if you self host? I’m not gonna use fluxer on their servers because they put dumb shit behind a paywall like discord does.
All the paid stuff is disabled when you self host. You can create your own paid tiers if you want iirc.
Who knows… Like most discord alts it’s to early to know
What is flathub?
its a place where you can get prepackaged malware that runs on your linux install half as well as if it was running natively.
“Is this Standards? This has to be Standards.”
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“Yeah, of course it’s Standards.”
Revolt/Stoat is already an FOSS (free open source software), self-hostable, EU-developed, privacy focus alternative of Discord. It’s been there a couple of years and have multi-support (Win, Mac,Linux and dev Android/iOS)
So what are the purpose of Fluxer over Revolt/Stoat ?
If I remember right, this has been quietly in the works for years. It aims to be a 1-1 discord replacement.
Screen sharing/streaming, group video channels, voice channels are a priority, some of which completely do not work at all or very limited in stoat (the last I heard about it). I think that is the difference.
A different focus than matrix or stoat which seem more about being a slack alternative first and then voice/video were thrown in later with YMMV results.
