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Fluxer is another open-source Discord alternative (fluxer.app)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 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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[โ€“] CafeFrog@lemmy.cafe 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 34 minutes ago) (1 children)

EDIT: The Fluxer dev has agreed to remove the CLA!

Just a heads up to anyone interested in Fluxer: there's a huge red flag; it has a contributor CLA that could allow it to change to a non-FLOSS license in the future. I was hopeful for it previously, but that kills it for me.

[โ€“] moroninahurry@piefed.social 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Well spotted!

For one, I am ready to support developers. But this model of software development isn't going to work out. Doesn't matter to me if they figure out how to get paid, but this is 100% the foundation of an enshittification model. And being that it's software based around organizing communities... one thing people need to learn is that people move, communities do not. It's not worth the risk.