02. Open Source Apps where to find them ?

Yeah sure open source concept is clear but where do we find all the open source apps ? Where can I find alternatives to Netflix ? Google Photos etc. ? Well there are luckily many sources online that do just that. I will outline a couple of the ones for discovering open source apps but most often you can just use your favorite search engine (that's not Google, Bing etc.) and search for

Open source alternative for X 

Alternativeto.net

This provides you most often with the website alternativeto.net which is a great resource for alternative applications for any proprietary and open source application. You just need to make sure that it has the tag Free and Open Source tag associated with it. Also on the website itself you can directly search for open source alternatives for an application. 

Type in the right top corner the application you want to find an alternative for. This results then all alternatives to that specific app including proprietary ones. However, we only want Open Source and hence you can select the tag Open Source. Then it will display all open source alternatives to the proprietary app in question. For instance we below we searched for open source alternatives to Google Photos.

Opensourcealternative.to

Source: opensourcealternative.to

Simply type in the proprietary app and the alternatives will show up. It is also just great to scroll through the apps and discover apps that you did not even know you wanted ;) 

Opensourcealternatives.to

Source:  opensourcealternatives.to

The only difference in the domain name is the letter "s" in the end ;) But the idea is quite similar to opensourcealternative.to. 

Itsfoss (Blog)

Source: itsfoss.com

This is a blog with the latest open source releases and discussions within the open source industry. It is definitely worth to spend you time here if you are interested in the movement or you simply hit the limit of the open source applications you are already hosting on your server. 

Now, this list is  by no means complete and there are tons of other sources out there. This is just a sample of the sources that I personally use ;) Now, next to blogs and these search websites there are also Youtube Channels that you can follow. Yes, Youtube ain't open source however sadly enough it is the only place so far to reach the biggest audience and hence people are locked into the platform.  We at Deternet however do try to use Peertube for our videos instead of Youtube even though the audience will be way less than it could have been on Youtube.