Fluxer: A chat app that puts you first
fluxer.app
Fluxer is an open-source, independent instant messaging and VoIP platform. Built for friends, groups, and communities.

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.

    • voracitude@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Neat, I’ll keep an eye out for that; ideally they’ll implement something less centralised than Giphy. In the meantime I got their admin panel running in my environment too, by fixing the source, so Giphy is next on my list. I want my users to be able to do gif searches 🤷‍♀️

      • Blisterexe@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        Klipy is probably a better option, afaik their api is a dropin replacement and the gif search is much better.

        • voracitude@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          24 hours ago

          I thought you’d like to know, I spent the last 6 or 7 hours on this:

          It would be drop-in replacement if I was satisfied with leaving a bunch of crap hardcoded. But no, I’m a frackin’ madman and I decided that if I was gonna do this I was gonna do it right and put the gif provider config in env vars, replacing all the hardcoding, and then also putting in valid link construction for gif search, and actually putting it into chat. So far it only works with Klipy, as far as I’ve tested… but it does work.

          • Blisterexe@lemmy.zipEnglish
            3·
            18 hours ago

            That’s awesome! It’s a shame the first pr got closed because the maintainer prefers a worse provider lmao.

            • voracitude@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              18 hours ago

              I’m not sure they fully read what the changes do… Because right now it’s not even just a worse provider, it’s straight up broken for self-hosters. Also, they only closed the back end PR, not the front end one that explicitly relies on it.

              My branch is still available on my own repo though, if anyone wants to try building from that.

              • Blisterexe@lemmy.zipEnglish
                1·
                17 hours ago

                You might want to point that out, maybe they didn’t realise tenor was shutting down.

                • voracitude@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  15 hours ago

                  I did; we’ll see if they read it I guess.

                  In the meantime, I built my changes into my own repo, and I included an install script for anyone who wants to run this with Cosmos (https://cosmos-cloud.io/) handling the container management and reverse proxy. I’ve tried to handle as much of the setup as possible - you only need a domain with a couple of subdomains, and optionally you can enter SMTP credentials during setup if you want the script to configure that for you too (alternatively, just add your credentials to your revolt.toml later).

                  If you want to give it a go you can find the initial release here: https://github.com/dorkian-gray/stoatchat_cosmos

                  • Blisterexe@lemmy.zipEnglish
                    1·
                    9 hours ago

                    I probably won’t try it because I want to use a federated solution like matrix, but that’s super cool! You could probably make a post about it.