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What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by ClearCutCoconut@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you'd love alternatives for?

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[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 118 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Discord. It's extremely popular and has no direct alternatives (Matrix spaces thing isn't ready at all yet)

EDIT: I didn't know Revolt and Zulip existed. I'm doing a research on them now

[-] ClearCutCoconut@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Especially with the upcoming implementation of ads. Really sucks that many communities and software support (who should have just had forums) are deeply embedded into it and will have to start from scratch and lose any and all helpful content. Its hard to see big communities moving to anything else anytime soon, even of there was a great Foss alternative. It would indeed be amazing to have one in the first place

[-] brrt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I think what’s even worse than ads is many channels now require verification through a phone number if you want to write something. Not sure when that became a thing but I just recently ran into this roadblock and noped tf out.

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

I thought the Discord ads drama was an April Fools joke?

[-] ClearCutCoconut@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

You had me for a second, lol. Unfortunately it is not an April fools joke :/ luckily for us though, the worse the application gets, the higher a chance a Foss alternative will emerge from a madlad who was sick of discord's shit

https://adguard.com/en/blog/ads-discord-blocking-adguard.html

[-] Damage@feddit.it 8 points 7 months ago

Adoption is always the main issue, as we can see here on the Fediverse. It's crazy how even technically-inclined people flock to discord. So many 3d printing communities are on there, people who install custom debian distros on raspberry pis, solder wires, crimp connectors and assemble open source machines, still fall into the trap.