Link: https://fermi.chat/

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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.

So basically they are a reverse engineered FOSS carbon-copy of Discord

not exactly a carbon-copy. but compatible with the discord client since it emulates the discord API very similarly, helping inn the migration process for bots and webhooks. but its not the same thing. harmony is completely different than discord, it just happens its compatible for dev purposes

I wonder how this compares to Stoat. I found this comparison of many different options but I'm not sure how up to date it is

Harmony is a fork, the original project is Spacebar (originally called Fosscord). It seems that the Fermi client dev was causing drama with the Spacebar devs, they banned him, and he went off and forked the project. Spacebar then forked Fermi in return. I thought that Spacebar might be a good refuge from Discord due to how closely it mirrors Discord's feature set, but this internet drama split in the already tiny community isn't helping either of their causes.

its not up to date at all + being not exhaustive. it just names the big ones and ignores the actual alternatives. and some random dead ones.

Please, I go by they/them

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

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