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Fluxer delivers updated landing page and 2026 roadmap. (fluxer.app)
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Where Fluxer is headed in 2026 and what we're working on next.

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[–] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I mean realistically Matrix is what people should, but won't use. So ignoring that Ive been sorta cheering for stoat.

The team actually seems to care about the project in like that... "old school open source" way, and they dont use ai. I believe funding is all donation only too, which is quite nice.

They had like 4 lines of ai code they removed and some people took that as 'omg stoat uses ai' and ran away from it, but IMO stoat is a good balance between discord-like and my "vibe check" as it were.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Agreed, though tbh even I found Matrix extremely confusing, buggy, and lacking features when I last tried it, I can't imagine how non-technical users would find it. I don't see it ever really becoming a massively widespread replacement (not that it needs to be, they're very much doing their own thing).

    Stoat felt really clunky last time I tried it but that was way back when Discord first announced the age bullshit, so maybe I'll give it another look. Maybe I'm misremembering and/or it's changed since then, but I don't recall self-hosting and decentralization being on their roadmap?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Stoat is technically self hostable iirc, as everything is open source but federation isn't planned so there's not as much draw to selfhosting it, since you'd basically have a completely disconnected instance.

    To me, that's an acceptable con of the 'vibe' based decision I'm making, but to others it may not be.

    and yeah stoat's servers struggled with the large influx of people.

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