As much as I like a lot of the discord alternatives out there I fear they will all eventually face the same fate. Decentralised or someone wrapping the signal protocol into a discord like client is probably the only way to avoid this again.
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over_clox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I just signed up with Fluxer last night and chat with one of my old Discord friends. Fluxer is still very much in beta and under development, but seems to be a pretty promising open source clone of Discord.
Bonje@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Fluxer plans federation in the future, and its AGPL licensed.
However, it’s still in beta, and the backend’s ability to scale is currently unproven.
For something that’s more proven, we have Movim, which is already federated with the open standard XMPP protocol.
XLE@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
So when all your friends want to screenshare on somewhere else, they install Movim and then sign up on…
And then when they jump into chats, will they be able to search the room history and post memes (images)?
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Yep :D
It has full searchable room history, can upload memes (gifs from either links or directly uploaded), images, video files (playable within the chat), and audio messages.
There’s also a built in paint-like thing that lets you draw directly into the chat, or annotate documents, pictures, or memes.
zewm@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well I mean Fluxer is open source and have self hosting options on their roadmap. 🤷♂️
boatswain@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
I’m still hopeful about veilid.com but I suspect that’s a long way out; the protocol is still in development stages, let alone implementations of it.
j4k3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is fluxer as network f’ed up as Discord without the minimum democratic standard of human readable domains, or is it the slavery of dozens of undocumented raw IP addresses?
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Honestly I have no idea yet, as I only heard of it and signed up last night. I am optimistic though…
thejml@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Oh man, when they get native mobile apps, I’m looking to switch my Mattermost server to Fluxer. I’ve had good luck with Mattermost, but its not truly OSS and its been moving features over to paid enterprise accounts so the time is soon.
odelik@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
You don’t need a native mobile app to use the Progressive Web App (PWA) installation.
web.dev/learn/pwa/installation