Post-Platform Digital Publishing Toolkit
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:
Video Publishing:
- Hyper8 - Static Website generator for video publishing, instead of Vimeo and Youtube
Music Publishing:
Newsletter Alternatives:
- Listmonk - Self-hosted Newsletter
Text Editor
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
Self-hosted Cloud Suite
Hosting Options
- Netlify (free, but not open source)
CMS - Content Management System
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
Other tools
- Flying Carpet - Cross-platform AirDrop alternative
- Letterbird - Contact form creating tool