(XMPP Setup Guide) Discord Was Never the End Game - TonyBTW

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Lemmy

What’s Lemmy’s opinion on Fluxer?

fluxer.app

Fluxer: A chat app that puts you first

Fluxer is a free and open source instant messaging and VoIP platform built for friends, groups, and communities.

Fluxer

I think generally more positive than negative, but hesitant. There are so many different competing apps and discord copies that have risen and fallen, it’s hard to really get attached to any that have little movement in fighting the network effect.

Seeing it already has the beginnings of enshitification with freemium features, while federation is “in development”, particularly in communities like lemmy the question become why pick this over something that already exists and is an open standard?

Like looking at the “plutonium” page, it’s clear they want to copy the features of discord nitro, and if we are to fight the network effect fight with the energy of discord’s recent fuck up, I would rather land on XMPP or Matrix, if I have any push.

Plutonium

Upgrade to Plutonium for $4.99/mo: custom username tags, per-community profiles, message scheduling, 4K streaming, 500 MB uploads, and more exclusive features.

Fluxer

There are so many different competing apps and discord copies that have risen and fallen, it’s hard to really get attached to any that have little movement in fighting the network effect.

In other words, you are saying that there is too much discord in this space?

Down with discord!

I’m starting a new app, call Concordance, and it will only bridge between different apps no matter where they are from 😤

Let me save you a few keystrokes, there's already an app called Matterbridge: github.com/42wim/matterbridge
GitHub - 42wim/matterbridge: bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocketchat, twitch, ssh-chat, zulip, whatsapp, keybase, matrix, microsoft teams, nextcloud, mumble, vk and more with REST API (mattermost not required!)

bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocketchat, twitch, ssh-chat, zulip, whatsapp, keybase, matrix, microsoft teams, nextcloud, mumble, vk and more with REST API...

GitHub
There is a better, community maintained fork now: github.com/matterbridge-org/matterbridge
GitHub - matterbridge-org/matterbridge: Multi-protocol chat bridge (IRC, Matrix, XMPP, Discord, Telegram, etc…)

Multi-protocol chat bridge (IRC, Matrix, XMPP, Discord, Telegram, etc…) - matterbridge-org/matterbridge

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