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The list is comprised of open-source software organized in alphabetical order, if not specified otherwise.
1) Email Providers
2) Search Engines
3) Web Browsers
4) Content curation
5) Content sharing
6) Website hosting
7) Social Media
8) Video and Voice Communication
9) Writing Tools
10) Cloud storage
11) Games
12) Others
1) E-mail Providers
Displayed in order of preference. I have used all of those (many more actually), and all here offer a good service overall.
Posteo - secure, eco-friendly, cheap.
Countermail - a bit more expensive alternative, more oriented towards security.
Snopyta - free service (not always offering new accounts).
2) Search Engines
Brave search - can be used independently of Brave browser.
DuckDuckGo - most known out of the list.
Little Isle - stock SearX with a Wiby template.
Metager - based on principles of free knowledge, open-source, anti censorship, and renewable energy.
SearX - privacy-centered (many instances to choose from).
Yacy - built on principles of peer-to-peer networks.
3) Web Browsers
Librewolf - fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.
Links2 - text and graphic web browser with a pull-down menu system.
Netsurf - lightweight and portable (more restricting than the others, for privacy reasons).
Qutebrowser - uses Vim-style key bindings and a minimal GUI.
W3m - text-based web browser and terminal pager.
Freenet - peer-to-peer web platform (clearnet alternative).
Tor - great for privacy (clearnet alternative).
4) Content curation
Coursera - some free online courses from various schools (proprietary).
Curlie - human-edited directory.
Dead Sea Scrolls - digital library.
edX - some free online courses from various schools (proprietary).
Encyclopedia Britannica - alternative to wikipedia (proprietary).
Librivox - free public domain audiobooks.
Petrolette.space - rss reader on your browser.
Project Gutenberg - library of public domain ebooks.
Standard Ebooks - public domain ebooks that are carefully formatted.
Research Rabbit - tool to discover research papers (proprietary).
Wikiless - Wikepedia front-end focused on privacy.
5) Content sharing
Ambient Mixer - listen and mix royalty-free ambient sound.
Codeberg - software development platform.
Font Squirrel - collection of fonts.
Hedgedoc - platform to write and share markdown.
Incompetech - royalty-free music.
KissccO - library of free-usable images.
Pickup Image - library of free-usable images.
Unsplash - library of free-usable images.
6) Website hosting
Ghost - web hosting (in case you need something similar to Wordpress).
Midnight Pub - blogging platform.
Tildeverse - social blog and more.
7) Social Media
Freetube - private youtube client for desktop.
Inventaire - book inventory and sharing.
Invidious instances - front end for youtube.
Lemmy - alternative to Reddit.
Peertube - decentralized video platform.
Pixelfed - photo sharing platform.
8) Video and Voice Communication
Jami - video calls, conferencing, and messaging.
Jitsi Meet - video calls and conferencing.
p2p.chat - peer-to-peer video conferencing application.
9) Writing Tools
Calculist - online outliner / note-taking system.
Calmly Writer - focused writting with desktop or online notepad (proprietary software).
DeepL - proprietary alternative to google translate.
Imml - tool for creating a static website using Markdown.
Lingva Translate - a FOSS front-end for Google Translate.
Overleaf - online LaTeX editor.
Markup.rocks - Pandoc based editor and converter.
Plain TextTable - create tables in plain text.
Zen- private web text editor (proprietary software).
10) Cloud storage
Cryptee - encrypted service to store notes, documents and photos.
Filen - encrypted cloud storage.
The Good Cloud (Nexcloud host).
11) Games
I'm not a gamer, but I'm adding these in case you want some break from work.
You can also find more games here:
12) Others
Liberapay - donations platform.
LibreSpeed - speedtest (no flash, java, or websocket).
Museopen - free music recordings, sheet music, apps, and educational materials.