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