that was actually a great video that confirmed some of the bad feelings I had been getting about these youtube sponsors

for me personally, Element is a non-starter because it refuses to support custom emotes and stickers. Sable has great support for them, while also being one of the most fully feature clients I’ve tried.

https://docs.sable.moe/features/ https://sable.moe/

A client for Matrix. It’s the nicest one I’ve tried so far.

huh that’s weird. Are you using the Play Store version? they broke the android app for a short while before pushing a fix a little a while ago. Maybe the play store version is behind and just now experiencing that? Right now on GrapheneOS the app installed with obtainium works fine on my phone.

https://fluxer.app/blog/how-i-built-fluxer

The main dev has maintained that Fluxer is not vibe coded. Whether or not they’re completely AI-free though, I’m unsure of. But at the very least they didn’t just ask Claude “give me a discord like chat app” and then shove that onto the internet.

I’ve been using it for a few weeks now, and it seems really great. it’s nice seeing actual progress and improvements in the mobile app. The glacial speed of Stoat had me pessimistic that anything could replace discord, but Fluxer’s honestly already there. The screen sharing and video calling just needs some work (and also federation!)

I’ve been using this one for a while too! I really quite like it. It keeps all the clutter off my wallpaper, but I’m still able to access everything just by swiping in a direction