It is absolutely not just Discord 2. And while they do have a very aggressive monetization scheme (can’t set a banner with the free account) that’s just to cover the development and hosting costs and it should be easy to disable them as the app is open-source.
Fluxer is open sourced under AGPL: https://github.com/fluxerapp/fluxer/blob/main/LICENSE
It is completely self-hostable: https://docs.fluxer.app/operator/get-started/
It is currently starting development on federation: https://fluxer.app/blog/mobile-clients-and-fluxer-v2#why-is-federation-taking-so-long
It is absolutely not just Discord 2. And while they do have a very aggressive monetization scheme (can’t set a banner with the free account) that’s just to cover the development and hosting costs and it should be easy to disable them as the app is open-source.