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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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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Second.

[-] GrappleHat@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

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".

[-] library_napper@monyet.cc 12 points 1 year ago

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.

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

If you have an alternative to alternativeto, do share.

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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https://prism-break.org/en/ is focused on privacy, very out of date and code is on github.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

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months 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.

[-] library_napper@monyet.cc 6 points 1 year ago

checks alternativeto

[-] halm@leminal.space 3 points 11 months ago

There is osalt.com, but it doesn't seem to be nearly as up to date as alternativeto.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

Doesn't seem to have HTTPS so I can't browse it.

[-] cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

license doesnt matter if you just link to it

[-] library_napper@monyet.cc 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] ElPussyKangaroo@lemdro.id 5 points 1 year ago

The sidebar?

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

Visible on lemmy web.

[-] ElPussyKangaroo@lemdro.id 1 points 11 months ago

I see.

[-] antipiratgruppen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

In Eternity (the app I use to browse Lemmy), the sidebar is equivalent to the "About" tab of a community.

[-] ElPussyKangaroo@lemdro.id 1 points 11 months ago

I'm on Eternity too... Is the sidebar the swipe-able tab in a community?

[-] Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Let's create awesome open source Or awesome alternatives

It's really weird that there's no one already made it

[-] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 3 points 11 months ago

This exists https://pluja.github.io/awesome-privacy

[-] Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Oh, this is exactly it

[-] federico3@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Count me in! (Or shall I say: you have my sword?)

[-] astrsk@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago

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.