Very good suggestion. Alternativeto.net is a great resource that I return to often. Eased the transition greatly when I originally left the "mainstream apps".
this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2023
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Second.
Before we jump to this, does anyone know the license of the content on alternativeto?
They have also had some pretty restrictive use of cloudflare that made their content inaccessible to privacy users in the past.
If you have an alternative to alternativeto, do share.
AlternativeTo lists open source alternatives to AlternativeTo.
Now that's meta.
Looking at that list, no option seems particularly good at the moment.
https://opensource.builders/ looks nice, but has the code on github and the DB is a single JSON file. Editing requires running the thing locally and then creating a PR.
https://switching.software/ is a single page that lists all the software. Upside is that the code is codeberg, not github.
https://prism-break.org/en/ is focused on privacy, very out of date and code is on github.
Privacy Guides is also all about privacy, so it won't be a generic alternative finder.
I stopped looking after that.
Up to the mods which one they want to pick, but honestly, a link to alternatives might cut down on the "I'm looking for a recommendation for an alternative" posts.
https://directory.fsf.org seems pretty good, actually. I've been lurking at electronics modeling software for a few years now and just found ones I've never heard of there but also the usual suspects. Maybe a better FOSS browsing tool, but still pretty cool.
checks alternativeto
There is osalt.com, but it doesn't seem to be nearly as up to date as alternativeto.
Doesn't seem to have HTTPS so I can't browse it.
license doesnt matter if you just link to it
Of course it matters.We dont want to support or contribute content to a service that could go down one day and all the data is lost because we can't fork it.
It would be very desirable. AlternativeTo is perhaps the best and most complete service to find Software and services, for any OS and license. It shouldn't be missing from anyone's bookmarks, even so, a shortcut in Lemmy wouldn't be bad. Community driven, most with user reviews and ratings, warnings if a soft or service is discontinued, with Malware or Bundleware, all links to the corresponding Homepages for use or download.
Let's create awesome open source Or awesome alternatives
It's really weird that there's no one already made it
Count me in! (Or shall I say: you have my sword?)
The sidebar?
Visible on lemmy web.
I see.
In Eternity (the app I use to browse Lemmy), the sidebar is equivalent to the "About" tab of a community.
I'm on Eternity too... Is the sidebar the swipe-able tab in a community?
My Linux/Windows guide has two whole sections and a table dedicated to this, with some websites listed for finding software and alternatives. They are all choices handpicked and refined from personal experience of over 15ish years.
Edit: its possible some may miss rest of the post that is in the form of chained comment. Just scroll and act like comments are one post. I do have it labelled it like Twitter (1/n) format for coherence.
I am really dumb. The link you shared doesn't show any table like you describe, and no links to the other "parts" out of 13. Can you help me figure this out? The part I can see is pretty helpful!
You are not dumb. I think your client app for Lemmy is not showing table properly. In Jerboa and Eternity, I can see table properly, and I think I now understand the mistake that is happening. Lemmy has a word limit for posts, and so, I created rest of the post in the form of chained comment below.
You probably missed the post, and this has been a bit of a bugger compared to Reddit's 40000 character limit, but it also keeps the storage needs lower for instance hosters.
Scroll down, I think your client is fine.
Fun tidbit, DuckDuckGo has a bang for it, I use it all the time.
!a2
A2 has been changing a lot over the years. I have found it’s UX to be going in the wrong direction and it feels like it’s on a path towards too much ad monetization and spoiled trust. For now it seems fine still but it does list alternatives to itself which could use some love and support along the way as A2 grows.