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

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

If you have an alternative to alternativeto, do share.

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

AlternativeTo lists open source alternatives to AlternativeTo.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Now that's meta.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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https://prism-break.org/en/ is focused on privacy, very out of date and code is on github.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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

checks alternativeto

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

license doesnt matter if you just link to it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.