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Fluxer is another open-source Discord alternative (fluxer.app)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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€“] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

You give them money for two things. Your paying the dev so he doesn't have to work two jobs and can focus on just this one job. Which is ideal for a major project that the lead dev is full time on the project.

And two if you use someone else's infrastructure. If you arnt using your own hardware then you should be fucking paying money and not being a free loader.

Self host if you don't want to pay. You get all of the features, there's no restrictions and you can do what ever you want with it.

Honestly I'm getting pissed at all the stupid projects that charge you money for self hosting. It's stupid as fuck. So it's nice to see a project that's basically pay us and use our servers or host it yourself and have no restrictions.

[โ€“] moroninahurry@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So there's not even a dev team for this open source project, and there's already a salary? How does that work for open contributions? Do contributors get paid or are we paying to lock the project into a single developer project?