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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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[–] CafeFrog@lemmy.cafe 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Of all the discord clones, this one does look promising I must admit, especially since the dev has mentioned they'd be open to incorporating federation and some encryption abilities down the road. The GPL license is a good mark, and the dev seems pretty chill. Downside is that's it's still very rough and in more of a visually polished alpha state. The dev mentioned they're about to release a major refactor of the codebase, which they hope will fix the sluggishness the server is experiencing after an influx of new users from the Discord dumpster fire.

Personally, I'd still suggest Movim over Fluxer at the moment.

Movim already has a proven, scalable back-end (XMPP), it's already federated, already provides good encryption, has 90% feature parity with Discord such as Chats, group video calls, screen-sharing with audio (requires chromium browser to share audio for now), its made in the EU, and it's ready right now, not some time in the future (if Discord users fleeing discord try Fluxer, they'd be likely to bail on it due to the current bugs and just go back to discord). The Movim developer is also currently working on adding in discord-like channels and rooms.

But that's just my 2 cents. Fluxer is one to keep an eye on for the future, though.

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Movim seems less like a Discord alternative and more like a Whatsapp alternative

[–] CafeFrog@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 days ago

As I said, the discord-style server/rooms are currently being worked on. After which, it should functionally be pretty much 1:1 with Discord. The only thing it'd be missing is the Forums feature, but instead it does have a pretty cool blog feature :)