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AlternativeTo is a site I use quite a bit. Personally I use it when I get fed up with an Android app having too many ads / creepy network behavior or want to find a self-hostable version of a freemium service.

It has filters for free, open source, platform type, etc. From my understanding it's all crowd sourced, so if you disagree with a rating put in a vote! Sharing this in hopes that others find it as useful as I do.

If you know of similar or better resources I would love to hear about them.

Edit: many people are noting that the comments and reviews are out of date. I agree! Despite that I still find it to he useful. It would be great if this little bit of visibility gets more folks engaged over there to improve it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

meta af. Kinda like how liberapay funds itself with its own model.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

cleverly also called “dogfooding

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I figured OSalt would have been near the top of the recommendations. I didn't realize how unpopular it was I guess. It's a little more selective in it's recommendations (and perhaps a tad dated).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Only issue with alternativeto is the comments and reviews are all dated, some by over 10 years, and often don't reflect the current state of the software.

A lot of the information on the site just feels very stale in general.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

So leave a new one.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago

Slant.co used to be similarly useful before its company shut it down to focus on Vetted.ai... Less useful though since almost every outgoing link was an affiliate or ad link. Alternativeto.net has been kinda the best option since the late 00s

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago

It is actually useful?

In my experience it just looked like SEO farm that polluted my search results with irrelvant machine-generated content.