What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?

posted 9 months ago

It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you’d love alternatives for?

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poVoq@slrpnk.net

7 points

9 months ago

I let you in on a secret: Discord also needs a server 🙃

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Akasazh@feddit.nl

10 points

9 months ago

… Ok I’ll let you have that ‘technical correct’ smug satisfaction, you bastard.

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vort3@lemmy.ml

3 points

9 months ago

But for real, if you can’t / don’t want to host your own server, just use any server from hundreds of available servers.

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Akasazh@feddit.nl

1 point

9 months ago

Oh I’s been a while. My clan hosted our own mumble server, back in the day. Didn’t know there was a lot of public ones nowadays…

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vort3@lemmy.ml

2 points

9 months ago

There are even services that give you free temporary servers. I don’t know why anyone would use that instead of just finding any server and use a free room if you just want to talk with friends, but well, it exists.

You go to a service like that, press a button, it generates you some random port number and password, then you connect to that server with mumble and become an admin of it. The server is temporary and gets automatically destroyed after some fixed period (usually something like 24 hours).

Also what I tried to do with my friends is run Yggdrasil and connect directly via IPv6 (so I run Yggdrasil and launch a mumble server, and all my friends enter my IPv6 address) and that works too, so no need to have public IPs or domain names to use Mumble anymore.

Yggdrasil is such a cool thing, loving it.

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