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A collection of 150+ self-hosted alternatives to popular software (openalternative.co)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by piotrkulpinski@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hey, community :)

I run a website that showcases the best open-source companies. Recently, I've added a new feature that filters self-hosted tools and presents them in a searchable format. Although there are other options available, like Awesome-Selfhosted, I found it difficult to find what I needed there, so I decided to display the information in a more digestible format.

You can check out the list here: https://openalternative.co/self-hosted

Let me know if there’s anything else I should add to the list.

Thanks!

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I wish more software wasn’t “hosted” these days.

I miss app ass apps.

Don’t mind me. I’m just feeling old.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Love the list, but scrolling through, the one liners don't mean much for a lot of these.

The descriptions are just too short and vague to even understand what a lot of them actually do.

[–] piotrkulpinski@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Noted! I have longer descriptions in the db, but didn't want to bloat the listings. Will try with a longer description soon.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

A "more" button after the one liner would be very nice. Or make the one-liner a link that gives a longer description.

Thanks for the work. I've bookmarked it!

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

One thing I would like to see is a way to distinguish which apps do Real™ Open Source vs fakie open source. For example, I see Joplin on there saying "Your secure, open-source note-taking companion". I guess that's technically true at this point in time, but they also force contributors to sign a CLA so they have the option to pull the rug later on. (Something which does happen.)

They even say so explicitly:

This is necessary so that if we ever want to change the license again we are able to do so

— https://joplinapp.org/news/20221221-agpl/#what-does-it-change-for-developers

And fine, if they want to do that it's up to them. I'd just like a quick way to tell the difference between open source 😒 and Open Source 😄.

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