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Fluxer is another open-source Discord alternative (fluxer.app)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by artyom@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

Paid features? Ew.

I'll be waiting until federation rolls out. Someone will definitely set up an instance that gives you the paid features for free

edit: replaced fork with instance after finding out that it can be configured

[–] moroninahurry@piefed.social 4 points 4 months ago

The thing about built-in enshittification up front is that there is no guarantee that it doesn't get worse from there.

[–] davawen@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Right, because why should someone to get an income and pay their server costs?

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[–] stickly@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Are there any options out there with screen sharing yet? Last I checked stoat was dragging their feet on it

[–] artyom@piefed.social 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Click the link. This one supports screen sharing, and much more.

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Oh missed that, thanks. Thought video only included cameras since screenshare wasn't in the bullet points

[–] CafeFrog@lemmy.cafe 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Movim does, and recently landed screen-sharing application audio too (must use a chromium based browser for now to stream the audio too).

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[–] patheticfantasy@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I miss using Mumble. I think it was great, but very barebones. I don't think I'd be able to convince my friends to switch there. But this is something, at least.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 4 points 4 months ago

I'll join and be your friend.

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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This requires an account on a centralized service.

It looks good but I'd rather make an account on a self hosted instance or just use a local account like TeamSpeak 3.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

You should actually read the second paragraph in OP.

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[–] msuix@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's between commet on matrix or fluxer for me, self-hosted.

The e2ee of matrix is preferred but it's still a bit too user unfriendly, and screenshare is not performant enough for gaming requiring self-hosting a livekit SFU.

Fluxer similarly uses livekit and will be self hostable and really is the most discord-like 1:1 replacement, but I agree both are alpha at best with commet somewhat ahead.

I'm looking forward to how things shake out. The only certainty is discord is dead for me.

[–] moroninahurry@piefed.social 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Also you can download commet today and the alternative is promises.

The screen sharing for games is not bad, it depends what you're used to. I've had some Discord headaches before 2022, but game sharing was always the main thing they had even when almost nothing else worked that well.

Also depends on your connection. The shittification throttling on non Nitro accounts tends to screw me over at home.

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