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Fluxer v2 is out, mobile clients are open source, self-hosting is improving, and public development is moving back to GitHub.

Fluxer v2 is out, mobile clients are open source, self-hosting is improving, and public development is moving back to GitHub.

  • warmaster@lemmy.world
    20·
    6 hours ago

    Just tried the app, looking great!

    Everything is AGPL and no ACL whatsoever, way to go Fluxer !

    Once federation makes the cut, it will take the indie web by storm.

  • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
    131·
    6 hours ago

    I just want one of these Discord alternatives to code up a “migrate-from-Discord” script that admins can use to scrape all of their messages and media, save out their channel structure and access rules, and pull their user list for later mapping, and box it all up into some sort of standards-compliant package.

    • uxellodunum@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      6 hours ago

      The closest modern communications standard would be Matrix (which is why I can take what I have in Commet (client) and move it to Sable or FluffyChat (other clients) for instance, because they follow the same standard).

      Centralized platforms do not deal with open standards because it literally goes against their premise - User retention via vendor lock-in. You can scrape to an extent, it won’t ever be perfect, and if everyone did it, it would get patched in some way to be limited.

      This was always the Discord trap though - Discord is a treasure-trove of knowledge that’s now behind a walled garden thanks to “community leaders” who thought they understood the importance of community longevity. Many are scraping whatever they can moving from one walled-garden just to move to another - Make it make sense.

      • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
        1·
        4 hours ago

        I know why Discord isn’t offering that, but there are at least three FOSS options (Element, Stoat, and Spacebar) that could really use a good way to get content off of Discord and into an open format (sure, Matrix is a solid option). Any data that can be accessed publicly can be scraped, even if it’d take a while. I think one of those teams should be considering this.

  • Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    6 hours ago

    They never answered my question about the requirement for a date of birth on registration, closing it down because of v2 and expecting the same issue to be reopened.

    • kobra@lemmy.zip
      123·
      6 hours ago

      I’m not super up to date on Fluxer and how it works but I do know that they’re still working on getting full self hosting available. Without any other context, my assumption is that’s a requirement for their hosted instance for whatever reasons they have.

      Besides, if it’s just asking for date of birth, is it really that much of an invasion of privacy? I mean the internet has been like that since the 90s and it’s been fine. You just lie if you want and the liability theoretically then moves to you instead of them.