RayJW

I never actually tried myself, but it seems like the documentation certainly could be improved. I saw that they provide a Docker compose, so perhaps that could be of help if you didn’t use that the last time around. They are currently in the process of cleaning up the projects to make things more maintainable and easier to get an overview, so let’s hope things might improve a bit. I think for me personally, this certainly seems like the most promising Discord replacement because it feels like a set and get solution for non-techy people trying to switch instead of relearning everything like with Matrix.

Revolt is self-hostable. It isn’t E2EE but if you’re controlling the users anyways transport encryption should be enough since you have control over the data anyway.

Sure, I agree. The problem is (and I’m sorry Matrix fans) but decentralised services don’t cut it for messaging at the moment. I’m on multiple Matrix instances which I use for different groups. One more tech savvy than the other, but still. Message can not be decrypted, or toggling one wrong switch and all messages become unreadable without you knowing. I would absolutely not have been able to switch 90% of my contacts to Signal if that were the experience.

Centralisation does not inherently have to be bad and Signal has been operating with good faith for many years now. I don’t see them selling out anytime soon and I think they are our best shot at a good FOSS instant messaging contender for the broad masses.

I really dig Signal‘s new long-sleeves. Depending what aspect of FOSS you like this might be something for you: https://shop.signal.org/

That’s fair enough! I can tell you it’s not that difficult but having a nice iDevice suite desktop application would certainly be a big improvement!

I don’t know why it isn’t mentioned anywhere on their website. But Organic Maps does have a desktop app. At least on Linux there is the Flatpak. I don’t know about other platforms.

Just so you know, libimobiledevice can backup iPhones with their idevicebackup utility. It’s CLI only, so maybe not as easy to get into as iTunes but it has worked pretty well for years on my end.

Thank you for your recommendations :)

I’ve added SimpleX and Mullvad Browser, I didn’t add Strongbox though. I am already linking to a list containing different projects related to KeePass because I’m not a fan of adding all the clients separately. That’s just going to clutter the list because KeePass has so many different implementations and clients for all the platforms.

So someone already mentioned this, but there is this list I maintain on Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/RayJW/awesome-foss

There is also this website which is pretty neat if you’re searching for an alternative for a specific software: https://www.opensourcealternative.to/

Oh yea, that makes a lot more sense :)

For sure! Super cool meeting you here. I love the work you’re doing. Sadly at the moment I can’t switch full-time yet (mainly on Wayland HiDPI displays) but I’m always checking the progress on good Wayland support, keep up the work! :)

Hey that’s so cool!!! I never thought I’d see my list posted around :)

Is it just the name you’re wary of or is there something you’d like me to change about it? I’m still working on it when I find new things or stuff changes but I mostly ran out of categories I have knowledge of :(

Hence the wording, right decision back when they were closed source :)

Hot take: but I think it makes sense. If anyone would pay for a closed source editor it’s mac developers hence it made sense to chose that as your first platform to support, especially considering that they are a small startup. I don’t use mac either but I think they made the right choice from a business standpoint when they were still closed source.