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Fluxor as discord alternative? Thoughts? (fluxer.app)
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Asking because I value opinions here.

Personally I don't think anyone can influence what the general audience of chat users ultimately coalesces around. That's going to happen, and it's going to be out of anyone's control as people discuss and compare and decide which they prefer of the dozens of alternatives appearing.

This however looks interesting to me. I know it's not Matrix and thus not secure like everyone here wants. But it is fully open source and it is AGPLv3.

It feels like it's getting some traction and interest. If it has problems that anyone here can spot (besides the full encryption which isn't something the rest of the discord users looking to leave are going to demand), I am interested in hearing them.

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[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I haven't tried either, but stoat seems more promising: https://github.com/stoatchat/

Matrix is lowkey dead. Everyone is waiting to see what will replace it, but none of these Discord alternatives check the federation+E2EE boxes yet.

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

Oh so this is where revolt went. I was wondering where the project was headed since I last used it like 2 years ago.

[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

Stoat has a way better backend and the devs have more experience in handling Scaling. Fluxer still suffers from outages but Stoat works well enough now.

This still needs a lot of UI work though because the client looks like ass. I've made several pull requests for Stoat but they've not been reviewed for weeks.