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shadowplayer2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I’ve moved my friends to fluxer which has way more features and just works.

Obviously this is tougher for large communities, but as of now Fluxer is much further along and more stable than Stoat and easier to understand and use than Matrix (Commet) for non-techies. It also is the most like discord unlike Teamspeak, Mumble, etc.

It also is going to support self hosted soon with a major refactor, is EU based, and seems to have a sustainable donation based model for long term development.

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Bahnd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Keep us posted on how Fluxer handles, I read their website/github and it looked fairly undercooked and their documentation needs help. The app probably works fine and the main host is likely in for a shock when with the flood of new users and I worry about them, it looks promising.

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camelwize@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I worry about it being a single dev. Feels like that’s going to be a lot of pressure and could cause trouble scaling the platform to accomodate for a growing userbase. That said, the more I read about Fluxer, the more I’m convinced it could be the most fitting contender to actually replace Discord, and not just be an alternative.

E2EE and federation are both in the roadmap, and if it gets those, you’d have the conveniences and bells and whistles of a Discord like app, with the security and freedom from interference of an app like Matrix. To me that sounds like the app a lot of us have been dreaming of.

Right now it’s still just a pipe dream, especially with just one dev, but I’m hoping if it picks up in popularity that maybe it has a chance of coming to fruition.

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