fluxer is a FOSS alternative to discord and will soon support self-hosting and federation with other fluxer communities. It is also not a walled-garden like discord is, meaning features such as communities and forums can be publically accessed outside of fluxer, so information isn’t locked behind the service.
At this moment, the service is not ready to be self-hosted or federated yet, but once it is, liminal.cafe will be doing just that! In the meantime we do have our own server available on the main platform and can be joined at https://fluxer.gg/V2Juyk7m. We do plan on bridging fluxer and irc in time.
If you’re reading this, chances are you’re a user and we’ve already set you up with soju credentials. All you have left to do is pick a client and connect.
Some excellent soju-compatible clients are halloy or senpai. Both should have their own faqs to connect with soju and both are pretty good to get you up and running.
Here is an example config for the client halloy.
[servers.liminal]
nickname = "<soju-username>"
server = "irc.liminal.cafe"
[servers.liminal.sasl.plain]
username = "<soju-username>"
password = "<soju-password>"
We’re assuming you’ve already registered a nick on a server in this little guide. We’re using libera here as an example network to connect to, but should work for any that uses SASL.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| /msg BouncerServ | Opens buffer to send the following commands |
| network create -addr irc.libera.chat -name libera -nick NAME -enabled false | Adds libera as a network |
| sasl set-plain -network libera USER PASSWORD | Sets your SASL credentials |
| network update libera -enabled true | Enable libera network |
| /join #lc | Success! |
You may need to restart your client after enabling your network.