Link: https://fermi.chat/

Promotional

Im not affiliated to Fermi/Harmony chat in any way, im just a user who liked it and want to share my experience of the app i find worthy of sharing

so i wanted to share a promising project that I have been using for a few months.

made this post to promote and share this platform since it needs more people, theres arent many atm and it deserves way more.

Fermi/Harmony Chat is free and open source discord like guild/community centered chat platform with most of the features that are expected from those platforms like message channels, vocal chats, threads, screensharing and more.
Importantly the chat platform has a strict stance against LLMs AIs and AI generated slop like vibe coding and other abusive usage of AI that replaces human work and slop it in the process. sadly fermi/harmony is unique of having a strong stance against AI. (other similar projects sadly uses AI and excuses AI usage and vibe coding)

the platform also allows users to create their own client for the platform. harmony chat is the API and fermi is just the currently only working client on the platform (was a spacebar client previously until harmony was created as a spacebar fork with the goal of fixing the many issues and bugs present on spacebar) and in the future, instances are going to be federated and the process will be managed directly by the client (fermi and other clients) without being tidious and for advanced users like on matrix, so more easy and beginner friendly.

the platform also is more lenient on its acceptable policy and have a no bullshit moderation.
(sadly not the case for other alternatives which sucks very much)

IMPORTANT

currently the project in its early stage and still has lots of bugs, glitches and various issues.

it is currently only accessible through a web browser (there is no app neither on desktop or on mobile)

lots of features are not finished and the platform still need major improvements. but i hope it is going to grow and become a viable alternative.

currently there are around 800 people are registered on fermi/harmony chat.

fermi.chat the main website currently (use this one to register)
melodychat.org the organisation's website (its called melody on codeberg and on the website since harmony was taken)

codeberg link of both harmony and fermi :

https://codeberg.org/MelodyChat/Harmony
https://codeberg.org/MelodyChat/Fermi

credit to Mathium5, eliza, devs and contributors for developping and maintaining fermi and harmony chat.

This seems to be a fork created after some internet drama a few months back. Spacebar (formerly Fosscord) is the original project to develop a Discord API-compatible replacement, both server and frontend. Fermi was one of the frontends developed for it and eventually became used as the official Spacebar client. I had set up some servers on it earlier this year when Discord's first round of age verification enshittification began, but didn't have much uptake on people migrating from Discord so I stopped following it. When I looked back more recently it seems there was some drama and a falling out between the Spacebar backend devs and the Fermi frontend dev and they've both forked each others' projects and are now trying to go their own ways. Not sure that can feasibly work but ok. I had high hopes for Spacebar in that it aimed to be fully API compatible, but seeing the already small community fracturing is not a good look for either side of the project.

https://blog.fermi.chat/discordAlts/spacebar/

(this doesn't have many of the most recent updates, but it has most of it)