PeerTube is a federated video sharing platform, which is based on WebTorrent and ActivityPub. There aren’t too many creators there yet, but here’s a list of the channels I follow: lt27.de/jAyUHD
A YouTube frontend will provide YouTube videos with no ads or tracking. Here are a few that I like:
Since Old Reddit will be dead soon, have a look at kddit and Eddrit. They’re like Libreddit, but not blocked (yet). However, you should try to avoid using them, as they get ratelimited quite easily.
The first FOSS product I ever used would have been either Firefox or OpenOffice.org, back in ~2010. I also used to like VLC.
The product that got me to go almost exclusively FOSS, however, was Linux Mint. I installed it on an old ThinkPad that my uncle had given me in 2019, and I was immediately impressed that this twelve-year-old notebook with (at the time) 4GB of RAM and an Intel Centrino processor could now easily outperform my brand new HP (which ran Windows).
It was only about a year later when I installed Mint on my HP, followed by my old Acer (which had been on a shelf for the last two years), and most recently my 2007 MacBook (which I keep around because it’s the only thing that can operate my scanner).
Organic Maps (maps app based around OpenStreetMap)
Cryptee (encrypted notes)
Matrix (chat)
LibreOffice + Collabora Office (office suite)
Kiwix (offline Wikipedia & other wikis)
NetNewsWire (RSS reader, for news)
Arms of the Fediverse I Use Regularly:
Mastodon
Pixelfed
Lemmy
PeerTube
WordPress
Dormant Arms of the Fediverse:
Friendica
Kbin
Funkwhale
WriteFreely
I have installed Linux on all four of my laptops, and I’m hoping to migrate from my iPhone to a Pixel with DivestOS as soon as I move out of my parents’ house (I’m currently 17), or sooner if possible.
I have also swapped many web apps for desktop apps, and my music collection has been based around CDs and DRM-free files since it started in 2016. In addition, I still use DVDs, VHS tapes, and (to a lesser extent) good old-fashioned Torrents for my films and TV shows.
If the internet becomes altogether too bad, there’s always Gemini. Making web apps is trickier, but entirely feasible.