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Fluxer is another open-source Discord alternative (fluxer.app)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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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[–] ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ehh I have the most faith in matrix but it definitely isn’t perfect and barely a discord replacement .

[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Someone mentioned commet as a discord like matrix client the other day. I've trialled it using my matrix setup, and it looks and feels very clean, I definitely prefer it to element.

Unfortunately as the tale always goes, it's not quite on par with element in features (it claims to have RTC support using livekit, but I couldn't find the group call option), but it's definitely one of the more interesting clients to come about recently. I really like the separation of spaces and personal chats, and the multiple accounts feature is useful from a sysadmin perspective.

Once they manage voice channels with RTC, I think matrix will finally have its discord alternative that could see some adoption with everyday users.

[–] jeroen@sociabl.be 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@javiwhite @ComradeRachel did the same and agree with your assessment. Very promising and much faster then Element... and multi account built in.

[–] BaraCoded@literature.cafe 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh did you both install it? It's neither on Flathub nor F-Droid

[–] jeroen@sociabl.be 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@BaraCoded used the brower, Debian package did nothing

[–] BaraCoded@literature.cafe 2 points 3 days ago

I'll put it in my notes and wait until their distribution system is a little maturer. It looks pretty Discord-adjacent