Fluxer has three ways to showcase a community: the Partner programme, Verified status, and Discovery. Each one is built for a different kind of creator or organisation, and each has its own perks, requirements, and application process. This article explains which one fits you and how to apply.
Partners
The Partner programme is for the long-term relationships we want to build with content creators and online personalities. It is meant to be mutually beneficial: we highlight people we believe make good content for the world, and they get perks that make running a community on Fluxer easier.
Our requirements here are the most flexible of the three, and deliberately so. If you bring something we think is uniquely valuable, we are happy to be lenient about metrics and other criteria.
Our partner programme page lists the full set of perks, from free Plutonium and a partner badge to a custom vanity URL and direct access to the Fluxer team.
Partner requirements
- A community presence on Fluxer that you intend to grow and keep around. We have no size, age, or engagement thresholds here; we want to see that you plan to use Fluxer for the long run.
- Values and intent that line up with ours. Fluxer strives for open, honest, authentic content. We care about people, we respect autonomy, and we want the world to be a little better tomorrow than it is today.
- A varied social presence outside Fluxer. Again, no specific size, age, or engagement thresholds.
- A commitment to our Community Guidelines and to fostering a safe, positive community on the platform. No community is perfectly healthy all of the time, and we are not looking for a sanitised one. We are looking for a strong culture of positivity.
Verified
Verification is for official entities: businesses, organisations, non-profits, groups, subreddits, and everything in between. It gives your community authenticity that members can see, along with a verified badge, a place in Discovery, upgraded streaming, more emoji slots, and a vanity URL. Content creators who do not meet our standards for the Partner programme may be verified instead.
Verified requirements
- A community presence on Fluxer that upholds our Community Guidelines and fosters a safe, positive community on the platform.
- A known presence outside Fluxer. We have no size, age, or engagement thresholds, and that presence does not have to be an online one.
Discovery
For every other community, Discovery is the way to go. It lists your community in the in-app Discovery directory, where people can find it by tag, title, or description. This is our most specific set of requirements, but it is also the easiest to meet. Creators and organisations who do not qualify for the Verified or Partner programmes can apply for Discovery instead.
Discovery requirements
- At least 100 members in total.
- At least 30 days old. We may make exceptions based on a variety of criteria.
- A clear topic or theme. "Just chatting" or "general hangout" communities can be accepted, but that is exceedingly rare and they must be well moderated.
- A link to Fluxer's Community Guidelines in your rules channel.
- Your own rules, and evidence that you enforce them. That means appropriate moderation coverage and moderators who are reasonably active. We know things will not always be perfect, so do not sweat this one too hard.
- Activity within the last 14 days.
- No empty or placeholder channels.
Disqualifiers
All programmes
- The membership of the community is fake, inauthentic, or consists entirely of botted members.
- The community is demonstrably inactive, abandoned, or has been archived.
- Policy violations happen regularly and require Fluxer staff to keep restricting permissions, banning accounts, or deleting violating content.
- The community was made solely to promote hate, harass others, or host extremist content.
- The community exists to break local laws or for other illegal activity.
- The community exists to run scams, spam, or other deceptive practices.
- The community impersonates brands, individuals, or other communities on Fluxer.
- The community was approved for one purpose and then changed its topic or purpose after approval.
- The community name, description, or logo uses the Fluxer name, logo, or branding without clearly stating that the community is unaffiliated.
Partner and Discovery
We cannot accept Partner or Discovery applications for NSFW communities at this time.
- This covers communities whose topic is almost entirely NSFW content, communities with an excessive number of age-restricted channels, and communities marked as NSFW. It also covers communities that excessively post NSFW content in channels that are not marked for it.
- Age-restricted communities can still be accepted when the topic of the community does not relate to NSFW, illegal, or harmful content, or when the age restriction is required by local law. A video game community for a title with a mature rating is a good example.
- No community may be listed in Discovery while it is requesting or processing identity documents of any kind from users, such as "provide me your passport to prove you are 18 or older".
How to apply
Partner and Verified
Email partners@fluxer.app with the programme and your community or creator name as the subject line, for example "Partner: Example Studios" or "Verified: Example Foundation". Please include:
- Your preferred name.
- Your community on Fluxer.
- Your social links.
- A brief description of you and what you intend to do on Fluxer.
- Anything else you think we should know.
Discovery
Open Community Settings for your community in Fluxer, go to the Discovery tab, and submit the application from there.
After you apply
You will receive a notification as soon as your application has been processed. Please do not send in multiple applications. If you are turned down for a programme, wait before you apply again:
- Discovery: 60 days.
- Verified: 75 days.
- Partner: 120 days.
Applying again before that period is up can lead to an automatic disqualification.