It would be very desirable. AlternativeTo is perhaps the best and most complete service to find Software and services, for any OS and license. It shouldn’t be missing from anyone’s bookmarks, even so, a shortcut in Lemmy wouldn’t be bad. Community driven, most with user reviews and ratings, warnings if a soft or service is discontinued, with Malware or Bundleware, all links to the corresponding Homepages for use or download.
My Linux/Windows guide has two whole sections and a table dedicated to this, with some websites listed for finding software and alternatives. They are all choices handpicked and refined from personal experience of over 15ish years.
I am really dumb. The link you shared doesn’t show any table like you describe, and no links to the other “parts” out of 13. Can you help me figure this out? The part I can see is pretty helpful!
You are not dumb. I think your client app for Lemmy is not showing table properly. In Jerboa and Eternity, I can see table properly, and I think I now understand the mistake that is happening. Lemmy has a word limit for posts, and so, I created rest of the post in the form of chained comment below.
You probably missed the post, and this has been a bit of a bugger compared to Reddit’s 40000 character limit, but it also keeps the storage needs lower for instance hosters.
Of course it matters.We dont want to support or contribute content to a service that could go down one day and all the data is lost because we can’t fork it.
Looking at that list, no option seems particularly good at the moment.
opensource.builders looks nice, but has the code on github and the DB is a single JSON file. Editing requires running the thing locally and then creating a PR.
switching.software is a single page that lists all the software. Upside is that the code is codeberg, not github.
prism-break.org/en/ is focused on privacy, very out of date and code is on github.
Privacy Guides is also all about privacy, so it won’t be a generic alternative finder.
I stopped looking after that.
Up to the mods which one they want to pick, but honestly, a link to alternatives might cut down on the “I’m looking for a recommendation for an alternative” posts.
directory.fsf.org seems pretty good, actually. I’ve been lurking at electronics modeling software for a few years now and just found ones I’ve never heard of there but also the usual suspects. Maybe a better FOSS browsing tool, but still pretty cool.
Very good suggestion. Alternativeto.net is a great resource that I return to often. Eased the transition greatly when I originally left the “mainstream apps”.
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