If you’re tired of being tracked on the Internet, or you just simply don’t want to see any more shitty ads in any platform, even YT, here’s a compilation of some awesome FOSS tooling.

Invidious (YouTube alternative) #

Invidious is an open source alternative front-end to YouTube.

Basically, like a proxy to youtube with the tracking & ads stripped, you can check the available instances https://docs.invidious.io/instances/

Nitter (Twitter alternative) #

Alternative Twitter front-end.

If you’ve been in that moment where your friends share Twitter links but you don’t have an account and fucks sake don’t even want to make one, then this will proxy for you. No login screen, no JavaScript, no Ads/Tracking.

Now when you get that twitter link, just replace twitter.com with the name of an instance from this list https://github.com/xnaas/nitter-instances

PeerTube (YouTube alternative) #

free and decentralized alternative to video platforms

Mastodon (Twitter alternative) #

Mastodon isn’t a single website like Twitter or Facebook, it’s a network of thousands of servers operated by different organizations and individuals that provide a seamless social media experience.

There are lots of instances https://joinmastodon.org/communities

Pixelfed (Instagram alternative) #

A federated free and ethical photo sharing platform.

Instances: https://fedidb.org/software/pixelfed

Codeberg (GitHub alternative) #

Free git hosting platform with no tracking. They use Woodpecker CI for CI/CD pipelines. They’re built on top of gitea which in v1.17.0 have layed the foundation for federation, which means it will allow instances to communicate with each other in the future.

Codeberg pages (GitHub Pages alternative) #

Here’s my blog configuration to get you started https://codeberg.org/dminca/pages

Bibliogram (Instagram alternative) #

Bibliogram is an alternative front-end for Instagram. Bibliogram works without browser JavaScript, has no ads or tracking, and doesn’t urge you to sign up.

Lists of instances:

• https://git.sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram-docs/tree/master/docs/Instances.md
• https://xnaas.github.io/bibliogram-instances/

Proxitok (TikTok alternative) #

Instances:

• https://github.com/pablouser1/ProxiTok/wiki/Public-instances

Teddit (Reddit alternative) #

Instances:

• https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit#instances

Rimgo (Imgur alternative) #

Instances:

• https://codeberg.org/video-prize-ranch/rimgo#instances