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Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto
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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.
https://fluxer.app/
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?
Honestly I have no idea yet, as I only heard of it and signed up last night. I am optimistic though..
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.
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.
Well I mean Fluxer is open source and have self hosting options on their roadmap. 🤷♂️
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.