Fuze Mediaboard is a platform where users can share audio, images, or video with others. It features a powerful permissions system and is intended as a replacement for Discord. This software is made to be self-hosted, meaning it runs on your system instead of being run centrally.
Why choose Fuze?
Freedom
Centralised platforms such as Discord have been progressively ramping up censorship for a long time now, and this has only accelerated with recent age-verification regulations and AI moderation. It is clear that the future of free speech on the internet lies in decentralised and federated platforms. Fuze Mediaboard gives you control over your corner of the internet.
Media-sharing
Additionally, Discord destroys image quality to save on storage space, and you cannot opt-out of this. They also randomly delete old files. Fuze Mediaboard lets you set how content is managed on your server, so you can share media without nasty surprises.
Speed
The backend was written in C++, which means it will take fewer resources than almost any comparable software out there.
It's not just the server that can run on a toaster - The front-end is lightweight and made with plain Javascript, making it unique among all the slow, bloated webapps out there now which pull in many megabytes of dependencies.
Future plans
Currently it's not as easy as it could be to deploy. The goal is for a user to be able to download an installer wizard, follow some graphical prompts, and then it will just run.
Key features to implement include: Voice channels and screen-sharing; Federation of the accounts system, possibly using Matrix's Identity Service API; Configurable archival and auto-deletion of files; Infinite scroll; Custom constraints in permissions; Moderation tools including reporting.
Showcase
Here is a list of places where Fuze Mediaboard is currently being used:
Users can register an account with a securely-stored password
Messages sent from an account are able to be deleted by the same account on different browsers.
The Administrator account, created when running ./server --create_administrator, can delete messages from any user.
Improved error/exception handling
Exceptions thrown when a file fails to be written by Magick or ofstream will no longer crash the server.
Replaced most Javascript alerts with error <dialog>s.
A file that failed to be uploaded will be clearly indicated as such, and will not be included as an attachment with the post.
Added ?display=embed URL parameter which hides the toolbar and reply box. Useful when using the Mediaboard in an <iframe> to dynamically add content to a webpage.
Threads can now be deleted, but only by the Administrator.
Default file size limit changed 25MB -> 100MB
Filename length limit changed 255 -> 205
This is because files with names longer than 205 are not able to be saved; characters are added when a UUID and thumbnail are created by the server.
Add support for having multiple Mediaboard instances running on the same server, by changing the database_name in config.ini.
