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title: "Will Fluxer become another Matrix?"
description: "No. Fluxer's planned federation is optional and mainly about identity and moving accounts, and it won't copy one instance's messages or files to another."
url: "https://fluxer.com/help/will-fluxer-become-matrix"
language: "en"
last_updated: "2026-11-12"
category: "Self-hosting and federation"
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# Will Fluxer become another Matrix?

No. Fluxer's planned federation is optional and mainly about identity and moving accounts, and it won't copy one instance's messages or files to another.

No, we don't plan to turn Fluxer into a "Matrix 2.0". Fluxer's planned [federation](https://fluxer.com/help/federation.md) will always be optional, and its main job is to give you one identity that works on other instances and to let you move your account. Everything else stays Fluxer's own protocol, and Fluxer's federation won't make one instance store copies of another instance's messages or files.

## What will federation add to Fluxer?

Federation will mainly add identity, and the instance with your account will give you an identity like name@domain that you'll use to [sign in to communities on other instances](https://fluxer.com/help/federation.md) without making a new account on each one. It will also let you [move your account](https://fluxer.com/help/federation.md) to another instance, and it could make [moving a community](https://fluxer.com/blog/self-hosting-and-the-operator-pass.md) smoother later on.

Apart from that, your app talks to the instance that hosts a community over Fluxer's regular API, directly or through your home server, the same way it talks to fluxer.com today. That instance [checks permissions itself](https://fluxer.com/help/federation.md), and no other instance has to agree.

## Will other instances store copies of my community?

No. A community's messages and files are stored only on the instance that hosts it, and federation doesn't copy or cache them on other instances. That's the biggest difference from Matrix, where [every server with a member in a room keeps its own copy](https://fluxer.com/help/federation.md).

Copying other instances' data [costs bandwidth, compute and storage](https://fluxer.com/help/federation.md), and that adds up quickly for a small instance someone runs at home. It would also leave an instance admin [storing content they never chose to host](https://fluxer.com/help/federation.md), and keeping many copies in agreement needs a [state resolution algorithm](https://fluxer.com/help/federation.md) that we'd rather not add to Fluxer.

The trade-off is that a community is [unavailable while its instance is offline](https://fluxer.com/help/federation.md), and we think it's worth it to keep Fluxer's federation as simple as we can.

## What if a use case needs more than that?

If a use case would need more than this, we'll set limits on federation to keep it from growing into another Matrix. Our experimental implementation hasn't started yet, so some problems will only show up once we build it. You're welcome to tell us about your use case in [Fluxer Labs](https://fluxer.gg/fluxer-labs), our community on Fluxer, where we discuss federation.

## Why not just connect the app to several instances?

Using all your instances from one app was our first idea, and the desktop app [already does half of it](https://fluxer.com/help/multiple-instances.md). It keeps your accounts on fluxer.com and other instances connected at the same time, and combining them into one view is the next step. You still need a separate account on each instance, and that's the part polyproto is meant to solve.

Federation is item 3 on [Roadmap 2026](https://fluxer.com/blog/roadmap-2026.md), with an experimental draft planned for 2026 and a stable release in the first half of 2027. Once it's out, you can still use a separate account on each instance if you prefer, and each instance can choose whether to turn it on.

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Canonical page: https://fluxer.com/help/will-fluxer-become-matrix

Last updated on November 12, 2026