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Fluxer is another open-source Discord alternative (fluxer.app)
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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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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 10 points 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."