OSS alternatives

these are alternatives to some platforms that i use

Definitions

Federated	this platform is made of many privately hosted home servers that are each responsible for moderation and data storage on THAT server
Home Server	a server that hosts the user data of all users signed up on it
E2EE	End to end encryption

Platforms

Discord

Alternative 1: Fluxer

	Federated1
	E2EE
	Calls
	Streams
	Images and gifs
9/10	Ease of use

Alternative 2: Matrix

	Federated
	E2EE
	Calls2
	Streams2
	Images and gifs2
7/10	Ease of use

I recommend the federated.nexus home server

Clients

SableFluffy Chat

	Desktop
	Mobile
	Calls
	Streams
	Images and gifs
8/10	Ease of use

	Desktop
	Mobile
	Calls
	Streams
	Images and gifs
7/10	Ease of use

Alternative 3: IRC(Internet relay chat)

	Federated3
	E2EE
	Calls
	Streams
	Images and gifs2
7/10	Ease of use

The ORIGINAL instant text chat platform

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UbKenFipjo

Bluesky

Alternative 1: Mastodon

	Federated
	Images and gifs
10/10	Ease of use

follow @ap.brid.gy on bluesky to bridge your bluesky account to have it appear on mastodon

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1. this is a NEW feature here ↩

2. on supporting clients only ↩↩↩↩

3. servers can be bridged with other servers, as long as server ops agree ↩

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