--- title: "Become a partnered community" description: "What partnered communities on fluxer.com get, what we look at before we partner with a community, and how to ask us about becoming one." url: "https://canary.fluxer.com/help/become-a-partnered-community" language: "en" last_updated: "2026-11-01" category: "Communities" --- > Index of Fluxer's official pages for AI agents: https://canary.fluxer.com/llms.txt > Links to Fluxer pages go to their Markdown versions when they have one. For other Fluxer help, policy or blog links, remove any #section part and add .md to the end. # Become a partnered community What partnered communities on fluxer.com get, what we look at before we partner with a community, and how to ask us about becoming one. If you mostly want more people to find your community, you don't need to be partnered. Any community can apply to [list itself in Explore](https://canary.fluxer.com/help/list-your-community-in-explore.md) from "Community settings". If you run the official community for a project, organization, brand or creator and want people to know it's the real one, you can [get your community verified](https://canary.fluxer.com/help/get-your-community-verified.md). Partnered communities are communities on fluxer.com that we work with directly. They're usually communities that have already been around for a while and plan to keep going, and that we think people who are new to Fluxer would enjoy finding. ## What partnered communities get - Your community gets a partnered badge next to its name. - A community that's also verified gets one badge that shows both. - The community's owner gets a gift code for 100 years of Plutonium. Plutonium works on fluxer.com and needs an account in good standing, as our [terms](https://canary.fluxer.com/terms.md) explain. - Your community is listed in [Explore](https://canary.fluxer.com/help/list-your-community-in-explore.md) as soon as you apply, as long as it has enough members. If it doesn't, the "Explore" tab shows the minimum. - You can email [partners@fluxer.com](mailto:partners@fluxer.com) about your community or Fluxer. ## What we look at There's no fixed bar for partnership, and we look at things like these. - How long your community has been around and whether it's likely to last. - What joining is like, such as whether you find the rules and someone says hello. - How active it is and what people talk about. - How well it's moderated. - How the people who run it treat others in public, on Fluxer and elsewhere. We decide case by case, and meeting all of these doesn't guarantee partnership. You can't buy partnership or verification, and buying Plutonium doesn't change our decision. Partnered communities must follow our [community guidelines](https://canary.fluxer.com/guidelines.md) and be [safe for everyone 13 and up](https://canary.fluxer.com/help/list-your-community-in-explore.md). Partnership is something we choose to offer, so we can turn down or end a partnership even when a community follows the guidelines. Ending a partnership on its own doesn't remove the community or the account of anyone in it. ## Open source projects We'd especially like to partner with and verify open source and free software projects. That includes Linux distributions, self-hosted software, privacy tools, data sovereignty and digital rights groups and the communities that have formed around them. Fluxer is free and open source software under the GNU AGPL. We don't ask contributors to [sign a CLA](https://canary.fluxer.com/help/cla.md), and they keep their copyright. Your project can also [run its own instance](https://canary.fluxer.com/help/self-hosting-fluxer.md) for free, and everyone on it can use the official desktop and mobile apps. We don't ask these projects to leave Matrix, IRC, Discord, a forum or anywhere else they talk. We also don't ask you to add a Fluxer badge or link or to promote Fluxer. Partnering with us or getting verified doesn't mean your project endorses Fluxer, and it doesn't mean that we endorse everything your project does. ## How to ask Email [partners@fluxer.com](mailto:partners@fluxer.com) with "Partner" and your community's name in the subject, like "Partner: Example Project". Tell us which community it is on Fluxer, what it's about and the Fluxer usernames of the people who run it, and link to where you are outside Fluxer. A person on our team reads every request. If we decide not to partner with your community, we won't always explain why in detail. Please wait at least 3 months before you ask again, unless something about your community has changed a lot. ## Staying partnered You can change your community's topic or hand it to a new owner at any time. If you plan to, tell us first at [partners@fluxer.com](mailto:partners@fluxer.com), and we'll decide whether the partnership continues. Our [community guidelines](https://canary.fluxer.com/guidelines.md) don't allow buying or selling communities. When something goes wrong, we'll usually contact you first and give you a chance to fix the problem. For serious problems, we may end a partnership right away. If we end a partnership, the community keeps its Explore listing or verification, unless the problem affects those too. The owner can reply to our email and ask us to look again, and if we ended it under our guidelines, the owner can also [appeal the decision](https://canary.fluxer.com/terms.md). If we change what partnered communities get, we'll email their owners first. --- Canonical page: https://canary.fluxer.com/help/become-a-partnered-community Last updated on November 1, 2026