This is a list of the libre software web services I - (Dave Lane) currently host on behalf of my employer, organisations for whom I provide voluntary services, for consulting customers, and for my own interest and utility.
Each 'technology tile' below represents a different libre web-based technology for which I actively run a publicly accessible instance either in a day-to-day production capacity or as a trial. Some are developed and run commercially by businesses, some are made available by governments, universities, charitable organisations and foundations, and others by loosely organised collectives and other sorts of communities. All are globally available, under the terms of their selected libre license.
Clicking on a tile below will pop up an expanded view of the technology and its details.
You can also filter the list of technologies shown based on three sets of software criteria: software categories, heavily marketed proprietary alternatives, and the libre (or 'open source') license used.
You can also filter technologies based on the active instances, like their current status (e.g. planned, production, trial, etc.), with which organisation or individual they are affiliated, and on which actual host they reside.
You can filter the software services listed below by the following filtering dimensions. Click a tag to remove or re-add it, or use 'select all or none' to select none, or invert your selection if it's more useful.
Tip: if you want to see all technologies tagged with a specific tag, click that tag to deselect it, and then 'invert selection'. You'll see only the technologies that have the resulting tag.
These are general categories of software which help you understand the sort of software you're looking at, as well as identifying functionally similar software for comparison.
Because all the software listed here is 'libre', I've included the names of functionally similar but heavily marketed proprietary software that is therefore better known to the general population, also for the purposes of understanding the use of the software shown and to what it can be compared.
These are the various 'open source' and 'copyleft' licenses that apply to the software listed. You can chose
Showing 53 active technology tiles.
Authentik is an open source, self-hostable IdP (Identity Provider) and SSO (single sign on) service built with security at the forefront of every piece of code, every feature, with an emphasis on flexibility and versatility.
Project website: https://goauthentik.io
Source code repository: https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik
Categories: Identity Management, Authentication, and Single Sign-On
Alternative to Microsoft Active Directory, FreeIPA, and Keycloak
License: Massachusetts Institute of Technology License (customised)
Instances of Authentik:
auth.fossdle.org hosted on 'id' by FOSSDLE".
auth.nzoss.nz hosted on 'sso' by NZOSS".
BigBlueButton is a comprehensive video conferencing platform that was originally designed to be virtual classroom software for online education. It offers conferencing capabilities (including 'breakout rooms'), polls, engagement analytics, a collaborative whiteboard, and the ability to watch videos together. Sessions can be recorded, including associated chat and shared collaborative notes.
Project website: https://bigbluebutton.org
Source code repository: https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigBlueButton
Category: Video Conferencing
Alternative to Zoom, Google Meetup, and Jitsi
Instances of BigBlueButton:
talk.fossdle.org hosted on 'talk' by FOSSDLE".
bbb.milll.ws hosted on 'bbb.milll.ws' by MiLLL".
bbb2.nzoss.nz hosted on 'bbb2' by NZOSS".
talk.iridescent.nz hosted on 'talknz' by NZOSS".
The Bookwyrm proposition: Talk about books, track your reading, and find out what your friends are reading, on your own terms. It is ad-free, anti-corporate, and federated. On it, you can seamlessly follow and interact with users on other BookWyrm instances, and on Fediverse services like Mastodon.
Project website: https://bookwyrm.social
Source code repository: https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm
Categories: Reading List, Book Reviews, Fediverse, and Social Media
Alternative to Goodreads
License: Anti-Capitalist Software License 1.4
Instances of Bookwyrm:
read.iridescent.nz hosted on 'ohaoha' by Iridescent".
Coturn is a free open source implementation of a TURN and STUN Server. TURN and STUN provide a crucial service to people on institutional networks, especially behind corporate firewalls, wanting to connect audio and video channels on internal computers to Voice-over-IP (VoIP), voice chat, or video conferencing systems.
Project website: https://github.com/coturn/coturn
Source code repository: https://github.com/coturn/coturn
Category: TURN/STUN Server
License: Turn Server License
Instances of Coturn:
turn.fossdle.org hosted on 'turn' by FOSSDLE".
koki.iridescent.nz hosted on 'koki' by Iridescent".
Discourse is market-leading modern forum software, providing sophisticated interaction options for users, with advanced threading, tagging, access control, and a plugin ecosystem to further extend functionality.
Project website: https://discourse.org
Source code repository: https://github.com/discourse/discourse
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_(software)
Category: Forum
Instances of Discourse:
forum.oeru.org hosted on 'share' by OERu".
forum.fossdle.org hosted on 'about' by FOSSDLE".
forum.milll.ws hosted on 'mesc' by MiLLL".
community.iridescent.nz hosted on 'nihowera' by Iridescent".
test.forum.oeru.org hosted on 'try' by OERu".
Drupal is one of the top two or three content management platforms on the Internet today. It provides substantially more functionality than WordPress, it's closest rival, but is more complex as a result, in turn resulting in somewhat fewer people working with it. It offers a vast range of 'modules' ranging from the trivial to the incredibly capable, and it also has a strong 'theme' development community. Many of the Internet's most important sites are powered by Drupal. Nearly all Drupal development happens on <a href='https://drupal.org' title='The centre of the Drupal universe'>drupal.org</a>
Project website: https://drupal.org
Source code repository: https://drupal.org
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal
Category: Content Management Systems
Instances of Drupal:
tech.oeru.org hosted on 'about' by OERF".
h5p.oeru.org hosted on 'share' by OERu".
nzoss.nz hosted on 'nihowera' by NZOSS".
davelane.nz hosted on 'ralph' by LaneVentures".
openstandards.nz hosted on 'ralph' by LaneVentures".
lane.net.nz hosted on 'ralph' by Private".
Element is the reference client implementation for the Matrix protocol, allowing access to the Synapse servers I run, which is accessed as a browser-based web service. Element is also implemented as a mobile application that can be installed on mobile platforms like Android and Apple iOS.
Project website: https://element.io/
Source code repository: https://github.com/element-hq/element-web
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Element_(software)
Categories: Rich Messaging Client and Federated Messaging
Alternative to Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Discord
License: Apache License, version 2.0
Instances of Element:
chat.fossdle.org hosted on 'work' by FOSSDLE".
chat.iridescent.nz hosted on 'ohaoha' by Iridescent".
Forgejo is a DevOps (Development Operations) package that helps software developers manage and securely collaborate on complex software development projects. It augments the ubiquitous 'git' distributed version control system which manages software versioning, helping developers track a source code base over its life cycle.It includes features such as access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task allocation and management, automated testing, and documentation wikis for every project. It is a fork of the Gitea project, and its development is supported by Codeberg, whose commercial hosted service uses the platform.
Project website: https://forgejo.org
Source code repository: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitea#Forgejo_fork
Category: Software Development Forge
Alternative to Github and Bitbucket
License: Berkeley Software Distribution 3-clause License (aka New/Revised/Modified)
Instances of Forgejo:
forge.magnificent.nz hosted on 'ralph' by LaneVentures".
Formbricks is an 'Experience Management Suite' allowing software developers to gracefully engage in market research of their users. The tool provides interfaces to create and manage online forms, serve them to the market, and analyse the results.
Project website: https://formbricks.com/
Source code repository: https://github.com/formbricks/formbricks
Categories: Form Builder and Surveys
Alternative to SurveyMonkey and Google Forms
Instances of FormBricks:
forms.iridescent.nz hosted on 'nihowera' by Iridescent".
FormTools is an online platform for creating and managing online forms, making them available to respondents, and analysing the results.
Project website: https://formtools.org/
Source code repository: https://github.com/formtools/core
Categories: Form builder and Surveys
Alternative to SurveyMonkey and Google Forms
License: None Specified
Instances of FormTools:
forms.fossdle.org hosted on 'about' by FOSSDLE".
Friendica is an advanced Fediverse application offering a broad range of services, somewhat comparable to Facebook. It supports multiple identities for each user, lots of group-level capabilties, and is one of the most mature Fediverse applications. This single application mirrors many of the capabilities of other social networks, all in one place.
Project website: https://friendi.ca/
Source code repository: https://github.com/friendica/friendica
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendica
Categories: Social Media, Fediverse, and Group management
Instances of Friendica:
friendica.iridescent.nz hosted on 'ohaoha' by Iridescent".
Frigate is a home security video monitoring system, with machine-learning (ML) based facial recognition.
Project website: https://frigate.video
Source code repository: https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate
Categories: Home Security, Video Surveillance, and Facial Recognition
Instances of Frigate:
frigate.davelane.nz hosted on 'selma' by Private".
Galette is a membership management system for non-profit organisations.
Project website: https://galette.eu
Source code repository: https://github.com/galette/galette
Categories: Association Management and Membership Management
License: GNU General Public License 3.0
Instances of Galette:
galette.iridescent.nz hosted on 'ohaoha' by Iridescent".
Ghost is a content management system that focus on being a superb blog engine that lives up to modern expectations. It's like the next generation of WordPress.
Project website: https://ghost.org
Source code repository: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_(blogging_platform)
Category: Content Management Systems
Instances of Ghost:
tpu.nz hosted on 'marge' by Private".
magnificent.nz hosted on 'marge' by LaneVentures".
iridescent.nz hosted on 'nihowera' by Iridescent".
Gitlab is a DevOps (Development Operations) package that helps software developers manage and securely collaborate on complex software development projects. It augments the ubiquitous 'git' distributed version control system which manages software versioning, helping developers track a source code base over its life cycle. Gitlab includes features such as access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task allocation and management, automated testing, and documentation wikis for every project. The community edition is open source but the enterprise version - with extra features - is proprietary.
Project website: https://gitlab.com
Source code repository: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitLab
Category: Software Development Forge
Alternative to Github and Bitbucket
Instances of Gitlab:
git.oeru.org hosted on 'id' by OERu".
git.nzoss.nz hosted on 'ohaoha' by NZOSS".
git.marshallday.co.nz hosted on 'mda22' by LaneVentures".
HedgeDoc is an open-source, web-based, self-hosted, collaborative markdown editor. You can use it to easily collaborate on notes, graphs, and even presentations in real-time. All you need to do to distribute your markdown content is to share your note-link.
Project website: https://hedgedoc.org/
Source code repository: https://git.hedgedoc.org/
Category: Collaborative Markdown Editing
Alternative to Obsidian
Instances of HedgeDoc:
md.fossdle.org hosted on 'work' by FOSSDLE".
Home Assistant is free and open-source software used for home automation. It serves as an integration platform and smart home hub, allowing users to control smart home devices. The software emphasizes local control and privacy and is designed to be independent of any specific Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. Its interface can be accessed through a web-based user interface, by using companion apps for Android and iOS, or by voice commands via a supported virtual assistant like Home Assistant's own 'Assist' (a built-in local voice assistant) using natural language.
Project website: https://home-assistant.io
Source code repository: https://github.com/home-assistant
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Assistant
Category: Home Automation
Instances of Home Assistant:
ha.davelane.nz hosted on 'marge' by Private".
Immich a system focused on automatically backing up media - images and video - from mobile devices. It provides a web interface for viewing the images, but without the ability to manage images or assemble them into albums with captions and other image gallery features.
Project website: https://immich.app/
Source code repository: https://github.com/immich-app/immich
Categories: Image Backup and Image Gallery
Alternative to Flickr and Google Photos
Instances of Immich:
media.davelane.nz hosted on 'selma' by Private".
LiberaForms is a libre software tool developed as community, free, and ethical infrastructure that makes it easy to create and manage forms that respect the digital rights of the people who use it.
Project website: https://liberaforms.org
Source code repository: https://gitlab.com/liberaforms
Categories: Form builder and Surveys
Alternative to SurveyMonkey and Google Forms
Instances of LiberaForms:
forms.nzoss.nz hosted on 'nihowera' by NZOSS".
LibreBooking is a software tool for managing an organisation's equipment and other assets, and managing scheduling/bookings of those resources across the organisation. LibreBooking is an open source fork - by members of it user community - of a previously open source system, Booked Scheduler, which was made proprietary by its developers.
Project website: https://github.com/LibreBooking/app
Source code repository: https://github.com/LibreBooking/app
Categories: Asset Management and Facility Booking
License: GNU General Public License 3.0
Instances of LibreBooking:
booking.marshallday.co.nz hosted on 'mda22' by LaneVentures".
booking.marshallday.com.au hosted on 'mda22' by LaneVentures".
booking.fossdle.org hosted on 'about' by FOSSDLE".
LimeSurvey (formerly PHPSurveyor) is a free and open source online statistical survey web app. Its web interface enables users to develop and publish online surveys, collect responses, review statistics, and export the resulting data to other applications.
Project website: https://limesurvey.com
Source code repository: https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LimeSurvey
Categories: Surveys and Form builder
Alternative to SurveyMonkey and Google Forms
Instances of LimeSurvey:
survey.oeru.org hosted on 'learn' by OERu".
Mahara is an open-source, web-based portfolio (eportfolio) management system developed for the Aotearoa New Zealand education system, but its use has spread far wider. In the indigenous Māori language, the word mahara means 'to think about or consider'.
Project website: https://mahara.org
Source code repository: https://git.mahara.org/mahara/mahara
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahara_(software)
Category: Portfolio Management
Alternative to LinkedIn
Instances of Mahara:
portfolio.oerfoundation.org hosted on 'id' by OERF".
Mailcow is a comprehensive multi-tenanted email hosting platform. It provides a wide range of email capabilities with a browser-based management front-end, allowing ISP-level email hosting for multiple domains, with quotas for mailboxes, aliases, and disk usage, and the ability to delegate management of domains or individual mailboxes to users. Also includes an integrated webmail client, SOGo.
Project website: https://mailcow.email
Source code repository: https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/
Categories: Email Services and Webmail
Alternative to Google Mail, Microsoft Office 365, ProtonMail, and Fastmail
License: GNU General Public License 3.0
Instances of Mailcow:
about.oerfoundation.org hosted on 'about' by OERu".
mail.nzoss.nz hosted on 'mail' by NZOSS".
moe.lane.net.nz hosted on 'quimby' by LaneVentures".
Mastodon is federated, community-run social networking that's not for sale. Its developers believe your home social media feed should be filled with what matters to you most, not what a corporation thinks you should see. It is radically different social media, back in the hands of the people.
Project website: https://joinmastodon.org/
Source code repository: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)
Categories: Micro-blogging, Fediverse, and Social Media
Alternative to Twitter, BlueSky, and Threads
Instances of Mastodon:
mastodon.nzoss.nz hosted on 'hiere' by NZOSS".
mastodon.oeru.org hosted on 'share' by OERu".
social.milll.ws hosted on 'social.milll.ws' by MiLLL".
social.fossdle.org hosted on 'work' by FOSSDLE".
Matomo, formerly Piwik (pronounced /ˈpiːwiːk/), is the most widely used free and open source web analytics application for tracking online visits to one or more websites and displaying reports on these visits for analysis.
Project website: https://matomo.org
Source code repository: https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matomo_(software)
Instances of Matomo:
stats.oeru.org hosted on 'try' by OERu".
matomo.iridescent.nz hosted on 'ohaoha' by Iridescent".
Matrix is both a set of technologies - a federated, secure (encrypted) messaging technology suite - and an open standard protocol for messaging. The Matrix suite is the open standards's reference implementation. It supports text-based messaging, audio messages, images, and files within 'rooms', and supports secure, encrypted one-to-one and group video conferencing.The key thing differentiating Matrix from other messaging platforms is that it is 'federated', allowing someone with an account on one 'home server' to interact in 'rooms' one other server with others users who can be from yet other 'home servers'. There are many other technologies, employing a range of programming languages created by separate developer communities, which also implement Matrix servers and clients for various computing platforms. I am currently hosting Matrix via the Synapse server.
Project website: https://matrix.org/
Source code repository: https://github.com/element-hq/synapse
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol)
Categories: Rich Messaging Server and Federated Messaging
Alternative to Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Discord
Instances of Matrix:
matrix.fossdle.org hosted on 'work' by FOSSDLE".
matrix.iridescent.nz hosted on 'ohaoha' by Iridescent".
Mautic is sophisticated software for automating an organisation's marketing and customer/user contact. I characterise it as 'MailChimp on steroids', as it offers the same sort of functionality as that widely marketed proprietary platform, but offers more besides, helping organisations reach their markets via email but also via social media and other vectors.It also offers a rich API for automated integration with other organisational systems.
Project website: https://mautic.org
Source code repository: https://github.com/mautic/mautic
Categories: Email Marketing Automation and Newsletters
Alternative to MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, and Constant Contact
License: GNU General Public License 3.0
Instances of Mautic:
mautic.oeru.org hosted on 'learn' by OERu".
mautic.fossdle.org hosted on 'learn' by FOSSDLE".
test.mautic.oeru.org hosted on 'try' by OERF".
MediaWiki is the open source wiki software developed for Wikipedia starting in 2002. It allows large scale collaborative editing of rich content in semantic 'markdown' format, as well as providing advanced distributed content moderation capabilities. In addition, MediaWiki is highly customisable, and features a rich ecosystem of third-party plugins. Its interface has been translated into 459 languages (as of Aug 2024).
Project website: https://mediawiki.org
Source code repository: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki
Category: Collaborative Wiki
Instances of MediaWiki:
wikieducator.org hosted on 'make' by OERF".
es.wikieducator.org hosted on 'make' by OERF".
c.wikieducator.org hosted on 'try' by OERF".
Mobilizon is your federated organization and mobilization platform. Gather people with a convivial, ethical, and emancipating tool.
Project website: https://joinmobilizon.org/
Source code repository: https://framagit.org/framasoft/mobilizon/
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobilizon
Categories: Event Management, Fediverse, Social Media, and Framasoft
Alternative to Facebook Events and Meetup.com
Instances of Mobilizon:
events.oeru.org hosted on 'make' by OERu".
events.fossdle.org hosted on 'work' by FOSSDLE".
events.magnificent.nz hosted on 'ralph' by LaneVentures".
events.iridescent.nz hosted on 'ohaoha' by Iridescent".
Moodle is the market-leading student 'Learning Management System' or LMicrosoft. IT is used for 'blended' or distance learning, flipped classroom, and other online learning purposes. It has been enthusiastically adopted by the secondary to tertiary education sectors worldwide.
Project website: https://moodle.org
Source code repository: https://git.in.moodle.com/moodle/moodle.git
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodle
Category: Learning Management System
Alternative to Blackboard and Canvas
License: GNU General Public License 3.0
Instances of Moodle:
moodle.oeru.org hosted on 'learn' by OERu".
moodle.milll.ws hosted on 'mesc' by MiLLL".
learn.greens.org.nz hosted on 'greens' by NZGreens".
Nextcloud is a software suite used for collaboratively creating and managing productivity files like documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, drawings, and other types of content. It support a variety of clients on mobile and desktop computing sytems, with full synchronisation capabiities. It provides functionality similar to Dropbox, Office 365, or Google Drive when used with integrated office suites Collabora Online or OnlyOffice. It is replacing these services in many parts of the world, especially in the EU where it is seen as a remedy to 'colonialism' by dominant US tech corporations.
Project website: https://nextcloud.com
Source code repository: https://github.com/nextcloud/server.git
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextcloud
Categories: Productivity, Calendar, Collaborative, Document Management, App Ecosystem, File Synchronisation, Survey, and Form builder
Alternative to Google Drive + Google Apps, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft One Drive, and Dropbox
Instances of NextCloud:
docs.oeru.org hosted on 'share' by OERu".
hub.fossdle.org hosted on 'about' by FOSSDLE".
hub.iridescent.nz hosted on 'nihowera' by Iridescent".
cloud.lane.net.nz hosted on 'ralph' by Private".
hub.davelane.nz hosted on 'selma' by LaneVentures".
Odoo is a Belgian suite of business management software tools that include customer relationship management, e-commerce, billing, accounting, manufacturing, warehouse, project management, and inventory management.
Project website: https://www.odoo.com/
Source code repository: https://github.com/odoo/odoo
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odoo
Categories: Association Management, Membership Management, and Enterprise Resource Planning
Alternative to SAP
Instances of Odoo:
members.nzoss.nz hosted on 'members' by NZOSS".
OnlyOffice is a modern in-browser (plus mobile and desktop) collaborative application suite which offers a full suite of 'productivity' functionality, covering word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, and editing PDFs. Its compatibility with files created by the dominant proprietary productivity software suite, Microsoft Office, is unrivaled by other non-Microsoft options.
Project website: https://onlyoffice.com
Source code repository: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnlyOffice
Categories: Productivity, Collaborative, and Document Management
Alternative to Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365
Instances of OnlyOffice:
onlyoffice.oeru.org hosted on 'make' by OERu".
onlyoffice.iridescent.nz hosted on 'nihowera' by Iridescent".
onlyoffice.davelane.nz hosted on 'selma' by LaneVentures".
onlyoffice.lane.net.nz hosted on 'ralph' by Private".
OwnCast is a decentralised, federated video streaming platform, allowing you to reach - and interact with - a large audience without having a large budget.
Project website: https://owncast.online
Source code repository: https://github.com/owncast/owncast
Categories: Multimedia, Video, Streaming, Fediverse, and Social Media
Alternative to Twitch
Instances of OwnCast:
stream.fossdle.org hosted on 'work' by FOSSDLE".
Peertube is a tool for distributing videos online, employing a sophisticated decentralised and federated network both for discovering and disseminating video content safely and efficiently.
Project website: https://joinpeertube.org
Source code repository: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube
Categories: Multimedia, Video, Streaming, Fediverse, Social Media, and Framasoft
Alternative to Google Youtube
Instances of Peertube:
vid.fossdle.org hosted on 'make' by FOSSDLE".
PieFed is a decentralised social network for people wanting to discuss any topic, especially with links to references on the World Wide Web. Users can engage in discussions across instances, scoring links and responses, with the aim of creating a crowd-curated knowledge base.
Project website: https://piefed.social/
Source code repository: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/
Categories: Social Bookmarking, Link Sharing, Link Ranking, Fediverse, and Social Media
Alternative to Reddit
Instances of PieFed:
link.fossdle.org hosted on 'work' by FOSSDLE".
Piwigo is a venerable image gallery, supporting flexible permissions, bulk image and album management, and features lots of integrations with other photo management tools. Offers a rich set of plugins to support user comments, downloading of collections, and many other mature image gallery features. Piwigo offers a range of 'themes' allowing instance maintainers to quickly alter the look-and-feel of their gallery.
Project website: https://piwigo.org/
Source code repository: https://github.com/piwigo/piwigo
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piwigo
Instances of Piwigo:
photos.lane.net.nz hosted on 'ralph' by Private".
PixelFed is a social media site focused on sharing pictures and videos to your followers and seeing those posted by those you're following.
Project website: https://pixelfed.org
Source code repository: https://github.com/pixelfed
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixelfed
Categories: Multimedia, Video, Photos, Fediverse, and Social Media
Alternative to Instagram
Instances of PixelFed:
pic.fossdle.org hosted on 'work' by FOSSDLE".
Plausible is intuitive, lightweight, and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, powered by European-owned cloud infrastructure.
Project website: https://plausible.io
Source code repository: https://github.com/plausible/analytics
Category: Website Analytics
Alternative to Google Analytics
Instances of Plausible:
stats.fossdle.org hosted on 'id' by FOSSDLE".
plausible.iridescent.nz hosted on 'ohaoha' by Iridescent".
Readeck is a bookmark management system that makes it easy to save stories or online media like photos or video that you want to be able to search though in future or read later.
Project website: https://readeck.org
Source code repository: https://codeberg.org/readeck/readeck
Category: Social Bookmarking
Alternative to Read It Later
Instances of Readeck:
readeck.fossdle.org hosted on 'undefined' by FOSSDLE".
bookmarks.magnificent.nz hosted on 'marge' by LaneVentures".
RocketChat is a comprehensive messaging service including a server and a web-based client. Mobile apps are also available for Android and iOS. It includes text, audio, and video chatting, along with file sharing. It does not, however, implement the Matrix open standard for messaging. Also, only users of a given RocketChat instance can participate in rooms on that server.
Project website: https://rocket.chat
Source code repository: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
Categories: Rich Messaging Server and Rich Messaging Client
Alternative to Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Discord
Instances of RocketChat:
chat.oeru.org hosted on 'about' by OERu".
chat.milll.ws hosted on 'mesc' by MiLLL".
chat.nzoss.nz hosted on 'nihowera' by NZOSS".
chat.ahau.io hosted on 'nihowera' by Ahau".
RustDesk is a remote access and remote control software, primarily written in Rust, that enables remote maintenance of computers and other devices. The RustDesk client is available for operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Apple MacOS, Apple iOS, Android, and Linux.
Project website: https://rustdesk.com
Source code repository: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RustDesk
Category: Remote Desktop Sharing
Alternative to Anydesk and TeamViewer
Instances of RustDesk:
make.oerfoundation.org hosted on 'make' by OERF".
Silverstripe is a homegrown content management system and web development framework created in Aoteaora New Zealand. It is fast, flexible, and is quick to learn and deploy.
Project website: https://silverstripe.org
Source code repository: https://github.com/silverstripe
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverstripe_CMS
Category: Content Management Systems
License: Berkeley Software Distribution 3-clause License (aka New/Revised/Modified)
Instances of Silverstripe:
oeru.org hosted on 'about' by OERu".
Sliding Sync ensures a Matrix client has the option of loading the absolutely bare essential data required to render its visible user interface - ensuring that operations which have historically been horribly slow in Matrix (login and initial sync, launch and incremental sync) are instant, no matter how many rooms the user is in or how large those rooms are.
Project website: https://matrix.org/blog/2023/09/matrix-2-0/
Source code repository: https://github.com/matrix-org/sliding-sync
Category: Messaging Cache
License: Apache License, version 2.0
Instances of Sliding Sync:
slide.fossdle.org hosted on 'sync' by FOSSDLE".
slide.iridescent.nz hosted on 'hiere' by Iridescent".
The Nginx Webserver is my chosen tool for both reverse proxying of webservices, and serving up static files. It is the market-leading webserver technology.
Project website: https://nginx.org
Source code repository: https://hg.nginx.org/nginx
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx
Categories: Webserver and Reverse Proxy
Alternative to Apache Webserver and Microsoft IIS
Instances of Static Sites:
assets.oeru.org hosted on 'share' by OERu".
wenotes.oeru.org hosted on 'about' by OERu".
assets.nzoss.nz hosted on 'hiere' by NZOSS".
docs.insul.co.nz hosted on 'mda22' by LaneVentures".
download.dbwave.co.nz hosted on 'mda22' by LaneVentures".
Takahē is a multi-domain Fediverse server for microblogging. Supports responding to multiple domains, meaning a single instance can host many communities with different identities.
Project website: https://jointakahe.org
Source code repository: https://github.com/jointakahe/takahe
Categories: Social Media, Fediverse, and Multi-Domain Server
License: Berkeley Software Distribution 3-clause License (aka New/Revised/Modified)
Instances of Takahē:
activity.fossdle.org hosted on 'make' by FOSSDLE".
Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted web service monitoring tool, providing a means to automatically periodically test the availability and performance of multiple web services, and providing alerts upon various conditions are fulfilled, indicating a service is unavailable or malfunctioning via a consolidated dashboard.Uptime Kumu, in addition to monitoring web services via HTTP, returning HTML, JSON, or XML. It offs an API, supports various authentication mechanisms, and can push notifications to various messaging tools.
Project website: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
Source code repository: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
Category: Network Infrastructure Monitoring
Alternative to Pingdom
Instances of Uptime Kuma:
ping.oerfoundation.org hosted on 'try' by OERF".
uptime.magnificent hosted on 'selma' by LaneVentures".
VaultWarden is a fully open source re-implementation of the Bitwarden server. Bitwarden is a password management service that is used to store sensitive information, such as website credentials, in an encrypted vault. It includes multiple client apps, e.g. web interface, desktop apps, browser extensions, mobile apps, and a command-line interface. The clients communicate with a 'server', either Bitwarden's service (which has proprietary software dependencies), or the compatible implementation, Vaultwarden (what I use).
Project website: https://tech.oeru.org/setting-your-own-bitwarden-password-manager-and-vaultwarden-sync-server
Source code repository: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitwarden
Categories: Password Manager and Share Secrets Management
Alternative to Lastpass, Dashlane, and 1Password
Instances of VaultWarden:
safe.oeru.org hosted on 'about' by OERu".
safe.fossdle.org hosted on 'about' by FOSSDLE".
safe.milll.ws hosted on 'mesc' by MiLLL".
safe.nzoss.nz hosted on 'nihowera' by NZOSS".
safe.lane.net.nz hosted on 'ralph' by Private".
WeKan provides an efficient, customisable, privacy-focused tool for efficient task management using the 'Kanban' approach. It can import entire projects from Trello.
Project website: https://wekan.github.io/
Source code repository: https://github.com/wekan/wekan
Category: Kanban Project Management
Alternative to Trello
Instances of WeKan:
kanban.fossdle.org hosted on 'make' by FOSSDLE".
WordPress is a 'blog' platform that has been extended to meet almost every set of requirements a website can have. It is the most prolific platform on the Internet, by a staggering margin. Nothing else is even close.Its unrivaled ecosystem of 'plugins' - which add functionality to the base system - and 'themes' - which alter the system's look-and-feel - is created by a global web design industry.
Project website: https://wordpress.org
Source code repository: https://wordpress.org/download/source/
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress
Categories: Content Management Systems and Fediverse
Instances of WordPress:
oerfoundation.org hosted on 'share' by OERF".
coep.nz hosted on 'share' by OERF".
oer4covid.oeru.org hosted on 'about' by OERF".
lanpham.nz hosted on 'selma' by Private".
susanryder.nz hosted on 'ralph' by LaneVentures".
openstrategies.com hosted on 'ralph' by LaneVentures".
baileybuilding.nz hosted on 'ralph' by Private".
WordPress Multisite creates a 'network' of blogs or WordPress sites, each distinguished from the others either by a subdomain or a separate URL path.So separate blogs on the family.blog WordPress multisite could be identified as mum.family.blog, gran.family.blog, sis.family.blog, or perhaps family.blog/mum, family.blog/gran, and family.blog/sis respectively. Each sit can have share or separate content, look-and-feel, and associated administrators and users. It's a very sophisticated system.
Project website: https://wordpress.org/support/article/create-a-network/
Source code repository: https://wordpress.org/download/source/
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress
Categories: Content Management Systems and Fediverse
Instances of WP Multisite:
tepukenga.oerfoundation.org hosted on 'learn' by OERF".
edt4ol.oerfoundation.org hosted on 'learn' by OERF".
wpms.oeru.org hosted on 'try' by OERu".
wpms.oer.nz hosted on 'selma' by OERF".
course.oeru.org hosted on 'learn' by OERu".
fossdle.org hosted on 'about' by FOSSDLE".
course.fossdle.org hosted on 'learn' by FOSSDLE".
pacificopencourses.col.org hosted on 'col' by COL".
course.oeglobal.org hosted on 'oeglobal' by OEGlobal".
WriteFreely is a clean, minimalist publishing platform made for writers. Users can start a blog, share knowledge within their organization, or build a community around the shared act of writing.
Project website: https://writefreely.org
Source code repository: https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely
Categories: Blog Syndication and Fediverse
Alternative to Medium and Substack
Instances of WriteFreely:
write.fossdle.org hosted on 'make' by FOSSDLE".
The (self-proclaimed) 'de facto' standard self-hosted URL shortener, making it possible to create arbitrary 'short' (easily shared or remembered) web addresses for any complex web address, with the ability to track clicks on each.
Project website: https://yourls.org
Source code repository: https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS
Category: Link Shortener
Alternative to Bit.ly
Instances of YourLS:
oer.nz hosted on 'about' by OERF".