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A list of alternative websites/software to popular proprietary services.
    • conno02@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year ago

      i mean, i can’t think of a proprietary application that does everything that blender does, so there’s no need to list blender as an ‘alternative’ i guess.

      i’m not particularly familiar with the 3d modeling space, i’ve only done basic stuff. feel free to correct me

      • rndll@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        I work in Architecture and fully transitioned our firm from using 3dsMax and Vray with Blender just before the pandemic started. Haven’t looked back ever since. Blender does a lot of things but for the most part, it’s an alternative to any mesh based 3d modeling and sculpting program. E.g. 3dsMax, Maya, C4D, Zbrush, etc.

        • conno02@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          yeah, after reading the article, its absence is quite odd-- i guess the author thinks its hard to learn, or something.

          blender is my first 3d modeling & sculpting program, and it did take me a long time (6 months) to learn. i guess there could be some merit in not including blender, but i haven’t tried the other programs, so i wouldn’t know

          • rndll@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 year ago

            Knowing what I know now, I would say Blender is a lot easier to learn and master than 3dsMax or Maya. Blender does have some quirks that 3dsMax does easier like grouping vs collections but you can just use add-ons to do the same things. I haven’t really found anything lacking with Blender that made me want to go back to Max. I’m happy to be rid of that software and just Autodesk in general.

      • Rodrigo Peñalba@mastodon.social
        53·
        1 year ago

        @conno02 hot take: people saying GIMP is the Alternative to Photoshop without saying its UX it’s the most unusable ever. Even Krita or Affinity Photo/Designer have better user interfaces than GIMP.

  • mim@lemmy.sdf.org
    9·
    1 year ago

    Telegram is on the list. Is it open source?

    I never understood the advantages of it, when something like Signal exists.

    • The Hobbyist@lemmy.zip
      32·
      1 year ago

      I have used telegram in the past and while I dont use it due to privacy concerns, it does have some advantages and convenience features to it:

      • the integration with bots allows for quite interesting applications such as interactive elements like voting or other automated behaviors
      • it’s really fast as you never download anything as it’s all in the cloud
      • because it’s all in the cloud you can access your chats from any device, even new, without downloading or backing up your conversations
            • ghost_laptop
              4·
              4 years ago

              There’s similar stuff, like switching.software, but they are more like a website that recommends stuff, this is the most similar thing to AlternativeTo. Also note that OpenSource Builders still does not support user input through the website, you need to create an issue for something to be added, but as far as I know they were working on that.

              • liminal
                11·
                4 years ago

                OpenSource Builders still does not support user input through the website, you need to create an issue for something to be added, but as far as I know they were working on that.

                I think without supporting user input it can never hope to cover the crowdsourced breadth and detail of alternativeto. It’s no more than a frontend for another awesome-list , as it currently stands.

                • ghost_laptop
                  1·
                  4 years ago

                  Well, they are working on it, and I assume they’re humans and have a life besides this project, of course it doesn’t stand a chance, maybe you could help them and see if that makes them progress faster on the project.

  • Audbol@lemmy.world
    31·
    1 year ago

    Hey , so you need to add REAPER to the audio editing list here, even if you feel a need to put an asterisk next to it. Development is extremely open and advanced. Really the only reason it’s not foss is because it was built on using elastique which is proprietary. The developer lead dev (Justin Frankel) is a very outspoken advocate for foss and has a plethora of open source software available. And to add to this REAPER is the most advanced, efficient, and full featured option in the entire world of audio software so it should be a real point of pride for the community and I’m sure if you asked any of the devs who develop the other audio programs on the list, they would say the exact same thing.

  • dreikelvin@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    I think an ios/android peertube app would greatly improve the popularity of decentralized video streaming

    • OverfedRaccoon 🦝@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      You can get NewPipe from F-Droid if you’re on Android. It does PeerTube and even Bandcamp streaming. It also allows you to use YouTube ad-free - and there’s a version with built-in SponsorBlock for skipping those in-video ads/promos.

    • Great Blue@infosec.pub
      1·
      1 year ago

      For Android have a look at NewPipe. You can add PeerTube instances and watch there. But AFAIK it was removed from the Play Store because it lets you watch YouTube Videos without Ads.

    • exu@feditown.com
      8·
      1 year ago

      Here’s a list of a few possible reasons

      • UI differences
      • Features
      • Not Microsoft
      • Open Core
      • Different CI/CD syntax

      It’s still git under the hood and shouldn’t make a difference in most cases.

    • shiham@lemmy.shihaam.me
      2·
      1 year ago

      GitHub is owned by Microsoft

      Gitlab is OSS, and you can host yourself

      (Ik most don’t and use the public instance) Gitlab has features that GitHub don’t have, or are better at somethings even if GitHub have them

      1. Selfhostable gitlab-runner, faster build and deployment
      2. Better permission management for organizations ( per repo, branch, registry etc)
      3. Groups, project repos can be in groups

      ^ Some reason why my organization use gitlab over GitHub, I personally use Gitea.