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Fluxer is another open-source Discord alternative (fluxer.app)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 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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[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

That's awesome! It's a shame the first pr got closed because the maintainer prefers a worse provider lmao.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure they fully read what the changes do... Because right now it's not even just a worse provider, it's straight up broken for self-hosters. Also, they only closed the back end PR, not the front end one that explicitly relies on it.

My branch is still available on my own repo though, if anyone wants to try building from that.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You might want to point that out, maybe they didn't realise tenor was shutting down.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I did; we'll see if they read it I guess.

In the meantime, I built my changes into my own repo, and I included an install script for anyone who wants to run this with Cosmos (https://cosmos-cloud.io/) handling the container management and reverse proxy. I've tried to handle as much of the setup as possible - you only need a domain with a couple of subdomains, and optionally you can enter SMTP credentials during setup if you want the script to configure that for you too (alternatively, just add your credentials to your revolt.toml later).

If you want to give it a go you can find the initial release here: https://github.com/dorkian-gray/stoatchat_cosmos