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Their client could be pure assembly, it's to little, to late.
Everyone get on Fluxer already.
I joined fluxer some months ago but the amount of communities seems very little.
🤷♂️ I just made my own server and my friends joined that, then we talk while we play Rocket League. Just like we did on Discord.
I dunno why you need to join so many communities on Fluxer?
I never said I needed to join so many communities but the list of communities is small. For example, I have a huge interest in certain types of music and I like to find out about bands and artists I may have never heard of, so its nice to join a community of people from around the country/world. Also, getting people you know to switch to something different or more privacy respecting isn't always the easiest. Believe me, I've tried.
You... use Discord for this stuff? Communities around interests? I wouldn't have thought to use it for that. I only use it to comm with my buddies while we play games. 🤷♂️
I feel you. I just told my bros I'm not using Discord, so if they want to talk it's either Steam voice chat or Fluxer. Thankfully they jumped on board. (Very difficult to play Rocket League well at higher levels without voice comms.)
Do you feel a difference in voice delay from discord to fluxer? We have so many double commits because discord delay is so high.
Ah, no not that many double commits at our level mostly due to game sense, and we've been playing together for close to ten years now. But I haven't experienced any noticeable delay in neither Discord, nor Fluxer. So, I might not be the best person to ask. Perhaps I've been lucky. Steam voice chat had quite a latency, however, IME.
Well, I don't use discord, but on some platforms yeah, music, gaming/modding, 3d printing, just to name a few. I mean, I think a big purpose of a lot of those types of platforms are for communities around interests. But no Discord.
I think Fluxer works best as a functionally equivalent alternative to Discord, specifically. Not as an alternative to social media revolving around interests and communities. 😁
Well, then I guess I use it for the wrong reason. Either way, I respect my privacy and security and Discord is a big no, especially with the shit they've pulled lately.
Oh yeah for sure. That's why I stopped using Discord day 1 after they announced the face id shit. They hadn't even implemented it yet. That's why I'm now on Fluxer, until that enshittifies. 😄
Good to have alternatives though. Stout, etc.
Waiting for federation before I’m able to hop over I don’t want my friends first experience to be on my self hosted server where they can’t interact with anyone else. But yeah fluxer will be great
Federation? In Fluxer? I've missed something.
https://fluxer.com/help/federation Check this out
Ah, cool! Thank you! 🙏 Very neat. Wonder if Stout can do that. Seems like it can't from my initial, quick investigation.
wtf are you talking about. fluxer.lemmy.world returns nothing.
First of all, calm down, friend. 🤝
Secondly: https://fluxer.com/
Neat, so I am switching from a California based LLC, to a Swedish LLC. How decentralizing!
Maybe I'm confused here but if you're seriously questioning whether you'd benefit from a smaller, Swedish based service over an American tech giant (unsure if this term applies to Discord in all honesty) - for starters you have the Swedish laws/consumer rights, GDPR. This company's whole idea also seems to resolve around being 'basically like Discord' - but without all the aggressive data collection, fingerprinting users, storing messages, and profiting from users data. I also took a quick look at the ToS and PP and it seems pretty solid what their ideals seems to be, or what they want to advertise themselves as. But hey, I bet using a US tech giant company with its entire business model focused on making a profit from user data in the year 2026 is just as good for data privacy respecting laws and regulations as any other!
Scroll back up the 🧵, I am anti capitalist.
Does that mean you selfhost every service you use unless it's run by a non-profit, or what?
when non-profits are ran by for-profits they are petite bourgeoisie so that's also bad
no need to self host if there's an instance from an unregistered fellow human though
This is a level of anti establishment that I think goes beyond what I'm capable of resisting. Just honest people releasing their work for free, basically asking for donations for their efforts, trying to make a living out of their skills. 🤷♂️
You do you. 👍
welcome to decentralization 101.
how did you even make it to lemmy in the first place?
Uh. Did you notice I asked you a question? Are you good, buddy?
Did you noticed I am in a different instance than yours, and you don't own lemmy.world?
Why are you talking about Lemmy and federation/decentralization?? What was that rambling about fluxer.lemmy.world? I'm not telling anyone to put that address in their browser address bar. Where did you get that from?
Correct. You requesting folks to rejoin another centralized LLC.
Can you edit that into a complete sentence? I'm not understanding you right now.
Is your previous point then that this is a private company, rather than FOSS?
decentralization. I even mocked the sweed’s lack of exploitation LLCs do.
unless you want to make a RandomHugs LLC.
You are weird and make no sense what so ever. But since you seem to enjoy adding random images that has no context or relation to anything, I'd like to do that too. Here, on the house.
Do whatever you want, bro. 😄 I'm proud of my guys at Fluxer, fighting the ugly Discord.
Matter of fact imma uninstall Discord when I get back home in a couple of hours.
Fluxer has been everything I need it to be in order to switch. Just saying. And what I use it for is basically just voice chat while gaming. No complaints thus far. Do with that what you will.
👌 sweed
Everyobody that read this thread: Fluxer's AI slop.
If you read that carefully, you will see:
Emphasis added by me (in bold, not capitalization).
I think they have a pretty sound policy at this point?