Charliebrownau Recommended Alt tech List - Dec/2021
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  Alt Software 
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 *  Firefox 			>>  LibreWolf
 *  Chrome 			>>  Iridium 
 *  MS Office 			>>  LibreOffice / Abiword+Gnumeric
 *  MS WMP/Itunes 		>>  VLC + Smplayer
 *  Discord 			>>  Mumble / IRC / XMPP
 *  Skype/Zoom			>>  Jitsi Meet
 *  Outlook >> Thunderbird 	>>  Claws-mail + Sylpheed + Mutt (CLI)
 *  Xsplit 			>>  OBS or SimpleScreenrecorder
 *  Create PDF			>>  Libreoffice built in PDF creation

 *  Windows 7/8/10/11 		>>  Open source Operating systems - Linux / BSD
 *  MacOSX			>>  Linux - Elementary OS (Linux) or HelloSystem (BSD) 
 *  Android			>>  Lineage OS or GrapheneOS
 
 * Playstore/fdroid		>>  Aptoide/Apkpure
 * iOS alt app store 		>>  Altstore.io
 * Alt Mobile Phone		>>  Pinephone or SIP or dumb phone
 * Alt Laptop			>>  Chromebook or Pinebook or Raspi or Old Thinkpad with coreboot firmware

 Password Managers 
 * KeePassXC 			- https://keepassxc.org/ + https://keepassxc.org/download/
 * BitWarden 			- Self host available - https://github.com/bitwarden
 * Another option		- Simple text file which is encrypted with VeraCrypt 
				  https://sourceforge.net/projects/veracrypt/

 



 Alt Platforms
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 * Fakebook/Twatter			>> Loop - http://loop.joshwho.net/
					   + Creation Social http://creation.social/	
					>> Self Hosted Social site - Pleroma/twTxt/Disopra/Movim		   																

 * Youtube				>> Joswhotv or Peertube	public server				   
 * Streaming				>> Entropy + JoshwhoTV  or self hosted RMTP server
 
 * Google E-Mail			>> POSTEO or Protonmail or Guerrillamail or Self Hosted
 * Google & DDG Search 			>> Qwant or SearX  or Brave or Joshwho Search 
 * Google Maps				>> OpenStreetMap (OSM)
 
 * Podcast hosting			>> TBA... / Self hosted website + RSS feed
 * Medium/blog hosting			>> Publish0x
 * Skype/video chat 			>> Jitsi Meet
 * Whatsapp/fb/etc			>> Session /  Delta.chat / XMPP (OMEMO encryption) / Simple (SIP)
 * Discord				>> Mumble or SIP VOIP
 
 * Reddit 				>> Wolf Balls or self hosted forum/reddit - eg Lemmy/phpbb/etc or old school forums/bbs
 * Wiki					>> infogalactic + appropedia
 * meetup.com 				>> @GetTogether
 * Instagram				>> pixiv.net
 * Pastebin/pastetext			>> https://dpaste.org/ 
 * Image Upload				>> TBA ... pixelfed self hosted

 * Streaming chat/superchat 		>> Entropy + Cointr.ee 
 * Streaming software			>> OBS / Simple Screen Recorder
 * Pateron 				>> Subscribestar + Librepay + Entropy + Cointr.ee
 * Spreadshirt/redbubble/teespring	>> https://dissidentapparel.com/
 


 
 * VPN (home PC)			>> Mullvad VPN or IPVN or self host
 * DNS (home PC) 			>> DNS.Watch 
 * Domain				>> Njalla https://njal.la/  + Unstoppable Domains or OpenNIC or IPFS
 * Hosting				>> Nearlyfreespeech net + RackNerd VPS + Vultr VPS + Check out Lowendbox community 
 * Maillist/mailchimp/Aweber 		>> Mailcow Mailing list
 * Project/task managment 		>> Focalboard - https://www.focalboard.com/ 



 * view Youtube anon+Privacy - https://instances.invidio.us/
 * View twatter anon+privacy - https://nitter.net/
 * View reddit  anon+privacy - https://teddit.net/
 
#free-speech #alt-tech #censorship #opensource #2030


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Content Creation:

JoshwhoTV	for videos,
JoshwhoTV	for livestreaming,
Entropy 	for livechat/donations/superchat
Publish0x 	for blogs
Along with Subscribestar for monthly donations


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Video Hosting alt solution - Self hosting

 Self Hosting using VPS/Server and Open Source:
 
 * PeerTube		https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
 * MediaCMS		https://github.com/mediacms-io/mediacms
 * Tube (new one)	https://prologic.github.io/tube/
 * Tube (old one)	https://github.com/wybiral/tube



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Web Browser Replacements / Solutions

* PC Firefox >>> LibreWolf - https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/
* PC Chrome >> Iridium or Ungoogled Chromium - https://iridiumbrowser.de/
* PC Tor >> TOR + LibreFox - https://github.com/intika/Librefox

* Android Browser >> Bromite - https://github.com/bromite/bromite

#opensource #alt-tech #phone #browser #security


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Open Source SocialMedia 'platforms' 

- pleroma - https://pleroma.social/  https://docs.pleroma.social/backend/installation/otp_en/
- Misskey - https://join.misskey.page/en-US/ https://github.com/misskey-dev/misskey
- Diaspora - https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora
or Acropolis, Magic Stone's fork of diaspora - https://github.com/magicstone-dev/acropolis
- Movim (XMPP)- https://github.com/movim/movim  https://movim.eu/
- TwTxt (Textfile) - https://github.com/buckket/twtxt

Webscripts/php :-
open source social network - https://www.opensource-socialnetwork.org/#


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VPN recommendation
Mullvad 
* Mullvad accepts ANON yearly payment with cash - https://mullvad.net/en/



* IVPN
 IVPN's ethics statement -- https://www.ivpn.net/ethics/
 The team behind IVPN -- https://www.ivpn.net/team/
 IVPN's privacy policy -- https://www.ivpn.net/privacy/
 IVPN privacy guides -- https://www.ivpn.net/privacy-guides/
 IVPN blog -- https://www.ivpn.net/blog/
 IVPN's Github -- https://github.com/ivpn




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