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 mastodon.social
  * [[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 an 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/|BookStack]] - A wiki software that can be used as a self-hosted collaborative note taking tool
  * [[https://www.collaboraonline.com/|Collabora Office]] - Collaborative note taking tool
  * [[https://onlyoffice.com/|Only Office]] - 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 
   *[[https://letterbird.co/|Letterbird]] - Contact form creating tool