articles:open_source_software_alternatives [Post-Platform Digital Publishing Toolkit]

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Here we have a list of software for different purposes that are (mostly) Open Source (and mostly free).

**Software for Creative & Design Purposes:** 

  * [[https://www.gimp.org|Gimp]] - Free & Open Source Image Editor ~ equivalent of Photoshop
  * [[https://krita.org/en/|Krita]] -  Free and open-source raster graphics editor ~ equivalent of Photoshop, or more for illustration and animation
  * [[https://www.scribus.net/downloads/|Scribus]] - Libre Desktop Publishing ~ equivalent of InDesign
  * [[https://kdenlive.org/en/|Kdenlive]] - Free and open-source video editing software
  * [[https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve|DaVinci Resolve]] - Video Editing Software (not open source, but available for Linux as freeware)

**Social Media Alternatives:**

  * [[https://joinmastodon.org|Mastodon]] - Microblogging ~ equivalent of Twitter. Have a look at the instances and choose what suits you best, rather than choosing the social.mastodon
  * [[https://pixelfed.org|Pixelfed]] - Image sharing app ~ equivalent of Instagram

**Video Publishing:**

  * [[https://simonrepp.com/hyper8/|Hyper8]] - Static Website generator for video publishing, instead of Vimeo and Youtube

**Music Publishing:**

  * [[https://mirlo.space/|Mirlo]] - Music Sharing Platform instead of Spotify and Bandcamp
  * [[https://jam.coop/|Jam Co-op]] - Music Sharing Platform

**Newsletter Alternatives:** 

  * [[https://listmonk.app/?ref=openalternative|Listmonk]] - Self-hosted Newsletter

**Text Editor**

  * [[https://www.sublimetext.com/|Sublime Text]]

**FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, and Cloud Storage Browser**

  * [[https://cyberduck.io|Cyberduck]] (for Mac and Windows, and for Linux as command line interface)

**Static Web Site Builder**

  * [[https://gohugo.io/|Hugo]]
  * [[https://www.11ty.dev/|11ty]]
  * [[https://docs.getpelican.com/en/3.5.0/|Pelican]]
  * [[https://jekyllrb.com/|Jekyll]]

**Peer-to-peer file synchronization application**

  * [[https://syncthing.net/|Syncthing]]

**Self-hosted Cloud Suite**

  * [[https://nextcloud.com/|Nextcloud]]

**Hosting Options**

  * [[https://cloudcannon.com/|Cloud Cannon]]
  * [[https://docs.codeberg.org/codeberg-pages/|Codeberg Pages]]
  * [[https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/pages/|Gitlab Pages]]
  * [[https://www.netlify.com/|Netlify]] (free, but not open source)

**CMS - Content Management System**

  * [[https://tina.io/|Tina]]

**Digital Publishing Tools/Platforms**

  * [[https://writefreely.org/|Write Freely]] can be self-hosted and used for blogging, it has a (RSS) feed and can be published to fediverse.

**Note Taking**

  * [[https://joplinapp.org|Joplin]] Can be self-hosted to use it across devices
  * [[https://cryptpad.fr|Cryptpad]] Online pad and online form (instead of Google Forms)
  * [[https://www.bookstackapp.com/|Book Stack]] A wiki software that can be used as a self-hosted collaborative note taking tool
  * [[https://obsidian.md/|Obsidian]] Note taking software with some nice advanced features (proprietary freemium software)

**Peer-to-peer File Sharing**

  * [[https://www.slsknet.org/news/|Soulseek]] - P2P file sharing, mostly for music

**RSS**

  * [[https://freshrss.org/index.html|Fresh RSS]] - Free, self-hostable feed aggregator

**Ad-blocking**

  * [[https://pi-hole.net/|Pi-hole]] - Network-wide ad and tracker blocking

**Self-hosted Book Tracker instead of Goodreads**

  * [[https://github.com/bayang/jelu/|Jelu]] 

**Other tools**

   *[[https://github.com/spieglt/FlyingCarpet?tab=readme-ov-file|Flying Carpet]] - Cross-platform AirDrop alternative