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Roadmap 2026 – Fluxer

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fluxer is pointless now they have age verification as well.

Fluxer's hosted service also needs to comply with laws around the world. However, we're clear that we'd rather exit a region than implement age verification. We don't have age verification. For example, to comply with the Online Safety Act, we block NSFW content for users on a UK IP address, rather than implementing invasive age verification. The same goes for Brazil. And we don't allow users in Mississippi to create an account at all. Those are the only limitations we currently have [1].

Discord, on the other hand, wants to implement global age verification, despite there being no legal requirement to do so in most jurisdictions. There's a difference between a social media app with ad revenue and a pure communications app. Because Discord focuses heavily on ad revenue, it might be treated as more of a social media app than a communications app under some legislation. Fluxer won't implement ads.

As another commenter has noted, I'm also doing the final push to release everything we've been working on privately, to make self-hosting officially supported and easy to do. Self-hosting is, and always will be, our focus. Our hosted service lets us act as an independent, European-owned alternative to mainstream services, handling the hard parts of platform moderation and operation that take time and money.

We strongly encourage self-hosting from 15 June, when that big update drops and all the code lands on GitHub. We had to keep those changes private while we improved our anti-abuse measures, as that was the only safe way to do it for now. That update also includes the first beta of the native Flutter-based mobile app for iOS and Android. On 8 June, we're landing many bug fixes, performance improvements, and voice and video changes (text-in-voice, end-to-end encryption in voice, screen sharing with audio, and much more) currently being tested on the Canary client [2] [3].

[1]: https://fluxer.app/help/regional-restrictions

[2]: https://canary.fluxer.app/download

[3]: https://web.canary.fluxer.app

I'm curious do you browse HN or is there some way you get an alert when someone posts about Fluxer cuz your last activity before this was 3 months ago.

Funnily enough, I just happened to be looking through "new" on HN whilst some code was recompiling when I found this. So it was pure coincidence! I know most companies that expect to be discussed on HN have alerts set up for this kind of thing though, and I probably should too. It's made me realise I've likely missed plenty of other threads & comments about Fluxer just because I didn't happen to see them the moment they were posted :)

You could just search keywords in hn.algolia.com it works great.

It's going to be self-hostable.

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