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List Open Source Alternatives to Proprietary Software (www.opensourcealternative.to)

submitted 1 year ago by flip@lemmy.nbsp.one to c/foss

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A good site that helps me find great alternatives to non-oss that I have grown accustomed to.

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[–] TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pretty rough around the edges, just did a quick scroll down and noticed several odd choices. Looks like this is mostly built via scraping or by someone who doesn't really know what some of these projects are.

Home Assistant is just called 'core' because that's the name of the main repo on github.
Mastadon is listed primarily as a facebook alternative.

[–] flip@lemmy.nbsp.one 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed, but for me it was still quite helpful to find some alternatives. Do you know of a better portal?

[–] furrowsofar 10 points 1 year ago

Simple: https://alternativeto.net/

Then just filter by "Open Source".

[–] lupec@lemmy.lpcha.im 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, HA showing as Core was what solidified my impression it was probably auto scraped somehow. Still, I'd argue there's some great value in using it for discovering or quickly browsing through services.