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Could we add alternativeto.net to the sidebar? (alternativeto.net)

submitted 1 year ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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It's a great place to find alternatives (including opensource alternatives) to services and software.

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you have an alternative to alternativeto, do share.

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[-] everett@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago

AlternativeTo lists open source alternatives to AlternativeTo.

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Now that's meta.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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https://prism-break.org/en/ is focused on privacy, very out of date and code is on github.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.

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[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

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.