articles:open_source_software_alternatives

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Software for Creative & Design Purposes:
Social Media Alternatives:
Video Publishing:
Music Publishing:
Newsletter Alternatives:
Text Editor
FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, and Cloud Storage Browser
Static Web Site Builder
Peer-to-peer file synchronization application
Self-hosted Cloud Suite
Hosting Options
CMS - Content Management System
Digital Publishing Tools/Platforms
Note Taking
Peer-to-peer File Sharing
RSS
Ad-blocking
Self-hosted Book Tracker instead of Goodreads
Other tools

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

Software for Creative & Design Purposes:

Gimp - Free & Open Source Image Editor ~ equivalent of Photoshop
Krita - Free and open-source raster graphics editor ~ equivalent of Photoshop, or more for illustration and animation
Scribus - Libre Desktop Publishing ~ equivalent of InDesign
Kdenlive - Free and open-source video editing software
DaVinci Resolve - Video Editing Software (not open source, but available for Linux as freeware)

Social Media Alternatives:

Mastodon - Microblogging ~ equivalent of Twitter. Have a look at the instances and choose what suits you best, rather than choosing mastodon.social
Pixelfed - Image sharing app ~ equivalent of Instagram

Video Publishing:

Hyper8 - Static Website generator for video publishing, instead of Vimeo and Youtube

Music Publishing:

Mirlo - Music Sharing Platform instead of Spotify and Bandcamp
Jam Co-op - Music Sharing Platform

Newsletter Alternatives:

Listmonk - Self-hosted Newsletter

Text Editor

Sublime Text

FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, and Cloud Storage Browser

Cyberduck (for Mac and Windows, and for Linux as command line interface)

Static Web Site Builder

Peer-to-peer file synchronization application

Syncthing

Self-hosted Cloud Suite

Nextcloud

Hosting Options

Cloud Cannon
Codeberg Pages
Gitlab Pages
Netlify (free, but not open source)

CMS - Content Management System

Tina

Digital Publishing Tools/Platforms

Write Freely can be self-hosted and used for blogging, it has an RSS feed and can be published to Fediverse.

Note Taking

Joplin - Can be self-hosted to use it across devices
Cryptpad - Online pad and online form (instead of Google Forms)
BookStack - A wiki software that can be used as a self-hosted collaborative note taking tool
Collabora Office - Collaborative note taking tool
Only Office - Collaborative note taking tool
Obsidian - Note taking software with some nice advanced features (proprietary freemium software)

Peer-to-peer File Sharing

Soulseek - P2P file sharing, mostly for music

RSS

Fresh RSS - Free, self-hostable feed aggregator

Ad-blocking

Pi-hole - Network-wide ad and tracker blocking

Self-hosted Book Tracker instead of Goodreads

Jelu

Other tools

Flying Carpet - Cross-platform AirDrop alternative
Letterbird - Contact form creating tool