Since Discord has decided to set itself on fire you might be looking for an alternative. Fluxer is open source (AGPL), selfhostable and based in Sweden. But maybe wait a while before you try to install the server yourself because the dev writes on github:
I know it’s hard to resist, but please wait a little longer before you dive deep into the current codebase or try to set up self-hosting. I’m aware the current stack isn’t very lightweight. In the next update, self-hosting should be straightforward, with a small set of services: Fluxer Server (TypeScript) using SQLite for persistence, Gateway (Erlang), and optionally LiveKit for voice and video.
The developer hosted instance has a Nitro-like premium tier for their service named Plutonium, if you selfhost you get all the premium features for free.
Fluxer is not federated (yet), but according to the website, federation is planned in the near(-ish) future. Furthermore the service is a bit spotty at the moment as they are fighting with an unusually big influx of new users.
They do everything to make those things just not work for the masses. Discord was so successful because it was centralized. Self-hosted will not cut it. Even if it is federated, this is not enough. Which is why I am currently also developing an alternative, which is future proof and fully decentralized. The keyword is: peer to peer.
It’s on Tubu. It’s literally on Heebee. It’s on Poodee with ads. It’s literally on Dippy. You can probably find it on Weeno. Dude it’s on Gumpy. It’s a Pheebo original. It’s on Poob. You can watch it on Poob. You can go to Poob and watch it. Log onto Poob right now. Go to Poob. Dive into Poob. You can Poob it. It’s on Poob. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/poob-has-it-for-you for context, seems like a lot of people downvoting this comment don’t have any clue
Grand poob is too much for the brain.
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In the modern internet, these alternative services have to be federated in order to withstand mass migrations.
It’s self hosted which is good enough. I’ll just ignore the cloud version and host an instance for me and my buddies.
The problem is to move the users over. People aren’t willing to change
This one REALLY is like discord, and I’d say with the incoming ID-checks people will be more open to change
I’m a bit worried it’s too much like discord. I expect if it got popular, discord may fight it
Worst case if it gets to that point is it’ll need a reskin which would be fine tbh
Fluxer really looks great. Might be the greatest alternative to discord, made in EU. But fluxer is tired these days. Too much traffic…
Why not Stoat? Main dev is in the UK so unfortunately not in the EU, but it’s been around a lot longer than most of these alternatives, and seems to be the main one i hear about
It looks very nice, but unfortunately it’ll likely not really reach mass-appeal just due to no proper mobile app (yet).
Personally I’ll definitely look into moving over with the communities I really enjoy using - but the masses will not move in my experience. You can see with how reddit still exists.
From first glance this looks much better than Stoat as an alternative.
I can’t register on it. Captcha authentification is broken
