Best Free and Open Source Software
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Bazel - LinuxLinks
Google has a firm grip on the desktop. Their products and services are ubiquitous. Don’t get us wrong, we’re long-standing admirers of many of Google’s products and services. They are often high quality, easy to use, and ‘free’, but there can be downsides of over-reliance on a specific company. For example, there are concerns about their privacy policies, business practices, and an almost insatiable desire to control all of our data, all of the time.
What if you are looking to move away from Google and embark on a new world of online freedom, where you are not constantly tracked, monetised and attached to Google’s ecosystem.
In this series we explore how you can migrate from Google without missing out on anything. We recommend open source solutions.
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Elk - Web-based Mastodon client - LinuxLinks
Elk is an alternative way to access your Mastodon account from your browser. This client is currently in an alpha stage of development.
Mastodon is a decentralized microblogging platform. Mastodon uses the ActivityPub protocol to share posts and actions between users within or across different instance servers.
This is free and open source software.