A great resource that makes it quick and easy to find alternatives to Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Adobe and many more.
Oh good , an alternative to AlternativeTo
but, is it an ethical alternative to AlternativeTo?
AltCeption!
Lemmy isn’t listed as a Reddit alternative. I wonder why that is.
They are also recommending PrivacyTools.io, which had a nasty takeover and started selling ad space. Privacy Guides is the better site.
PrivacyTools.io, which had a nasty takeover and started selling ad space.
Didn’t know that. Thanks for the heads up.
Some gentle pressure applied here might change that https://codeberg.org/swiso/website/issues/255
Adobe {product name} -> Cracked Adobe {product name}
Not a fan of your variable formatting within that string. You are banished from the mickey mouse code house. /s
Dunno if people consider apple “ethical” but the pixelmator apps on macOS have quickly replaced photoshop and lightroom for most of the light edits I do. Affinity’s apps are solid and cross platform but with a steep learning curve imo, but more comprehensive options. Always resolve on all platforms for video of course.
Serif (which owns Affinity) was just bought out by Canva, so it’s only a moment of time before they are enshittified unfortunately.
In Advanced Users they link to
computefreely.orgforapproachable and friendly for people curious about free and open source operating systems and Linux distributions
which is definitely not the content there. Looks like the original website went defunct in 2022 between January and May. Their website repo is archived.
/edit: I saw the website is open source and created a change request.
Anyway, I’d be careful about how up-to-date this website is, and what it links to.
My problem with these lists is they never provide any sort of evidence as to why these suggestions should be trusted. No discernable criteria that a suggestion in a category has to meet, no evidence the site fact checks its suggestions.
For political issues, you should petition governments directly on issues.
Not sure if this is a great alternative. This is a thing that is totally dependent from country to country. In my country, there is no such platform that I’m aware of (on the local or national level at least. Ok, I may petition the EU, but they may just have no responsibility into my matters).
Many institutions do have email addresses though, and if, for example, you have a website, you can write an email template and point to an institution where people could send that email. Even that I don’t know how feasible it could be, but it could be more doable in more parts of the world, I think.
Otherwise, for Romania there is declic.ro, a platform owned by an NGO who relies solely on donations to run it, and also runs its own campaigns.
They promote Ubuntu-based distros, which cannot be trusted anymore, and they forget to mention Fedora as a better alternative.
Here is why you shouldn’t use Ubuntu:
Canonical’s Ubuntu is not recommended because it contains Amazon ads and data leaks by default. GNU/Linux distributions based on Ubuntu are also currently not recommended due to several other reasons.
Source: https://prism-break.org/en/subcategories/gnu-linux-operating-systems/
/* claps hands excitedly as a Linux n00b who picked Fedora /*
