PieFedWhich open alternative apps list is the best?
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OttoI have been browsing the following:
- https://openalternative.co/?sort=pageviews.desc
- https://alternativeto.net/feature/open-source/
- https://www.opensourcealternative.to/
- https://euroalternative.co/
- https://european-alternatives.eu/
Which one do you think open source minded people should primairly recommend?
i like alternativeto.net because it's crowdsourced; not sure about the others
They are good guys, they even have a mastodon account: https://mas.to/@alternativeto
alternativeto.net is also my go-to resource because they have a good filtering system and are not solely focused on open source.
To me it is hard to find the best apps in their directory as they don't have a good ranking system. The other sites that rank by GitHub stars do a pretty good job of surfacing what are the truly most popular and successful apps.
Why not just all of them?
alternativeto
My go-to
https://github.com/An-anonymous-coder/Open-Source-Everything/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#security--privacy
I think there is also
https://opensource.builders/
and for the more privacy conscious the wonderful:
https://www.privacyguides.org/
There are some good comments in this discussion
https://lemmy.world/post/35820333
There is https://privacytools.io/ aswell
privacytools is controversial for turning into a cash grab and is about privacy alternatives, many apps have good privacy but aren't open and are missing some features so more general software alternatives sites are way better i personally like alternativeto
Privacy guides is the forked project by the original contributors.
Yep I forgot to add that to my comment