Fluxer looks like a promising app in the vein of FOSS replacements like Spacebar/Stoat, being a UI inspired by or cloned from Discord. Though seemingly it might lean more towards Freemium than FOSS.
I'm a little confused about the Pricing model, can someone clear this up for me please?
In the monetization model for Fluxer, on the main instance you pay $5/mo to:
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Unlock limits to things like the number of communities, message character limit, etc that are not limited by default on self hosted instances (?)
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Get features like "Custom video backgrounds, Custom entrance sounds, Custom notification sounds" that are enabled by default on self-hosted instances (?)
Or is the idea here that if you don't pay the dev $5 you don't get access to certain features in the self-hosted free software like video streaming features? (They are only in beta now)
uhg ive dreamed of this for the fediverse... we strive to be community driven, but in order to achieve that and keep the big pockets out we need an almost turn-key solution (hooks for known process services providers) for accepting donations or simple subscription management that allows server admins/communities to easily process the financial side of their instance.
adequate funding is one of the major hurdles to the side-scaling nature of the fediverse. even as cheap as it is to host lemmy on the lean side, you still see instances going down.