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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) Public domain media
5) Content curation
6) Content sharing
7) Website hosting
8) Social Media
9) Video, Voice and Messaging
10) Writing Tools
11) Cloud storage
12) Games
13) 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.
Snopyta - free service (not always offering new accounts).
Riseup - secure free service (if you don't mind its political views)
Tutanota - well known service (has a few limitations).
Automario - free service (run by one person).
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.
Meta-press - decentralized search engine & automatized press reviews.
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) Public domain media / resources
Ambient Mixer - listen and mix royalty free ambient sound.
Font Squirrel - collection of fonts.
Internet Archive - feature films.
Library of Congress - feature films.
Museopen - music recordings, sheet music, apps, and educational materials.
Pickup Image - library of images.
Project Gutenberg - library of ebooks.
Public Domain Torrents - feature films.
Standard Ebooks - carefully formatted ebooks.
5) Content curation
Alternative Information Directory - human-edited directory.
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).
Petrolette.space - rss reader on your browser.
Research Rabbit - tool to discover research papers (proprietary).
Tiny Tiny RSS - news feed reader and aggregator.
Wikiless - Wikepedia front-end focused on privacy.
6) Content sharing
Codeberg - software development platform.
Hedgedoc - platform to write and share markdown.
7) Website hosting
Ghost - web hosting (in case you need something similar to Wordpress).
Lists.sh - microblog for lists.
Midnight Pub - blogging platform.
Prose.sh - simple blog platform.
Tildeverse - social blog and more.
Write Freely - blogging platform.
8) Social Media
Bookwyrm - alternative to goodreads.
Freetube - private youtube client for desktop.
Funkwhale - listen and share music.
Inventaire - book inventory and sharing.
Invidious instances - front-end for youtube.
Librarian - front-end for LBRY/Odysee.
Lemmy - alternative to reddit.
Misskey - microblogging platform.
Movim - social platform (frontend for XMPP).
Nitter - front-end for twitter.
Peertube - decentralized video platform.
Piped - front-end for youtube.
Pixelfed - photo sharing platform.
Rawtext.club - slow social network.
Tildeverse - social blog and more.
Twtxt - minimalist microblogging.
9) Video, Voice, and Messaging
Delta Chat - messaging app that works over e-mail.
Jami - video calls, conferencing, and messaging.
Jitsi Meet - video calls and conferencing.
p2p.chat - peer-to-peer video conferencing application.
XMPP - universal messaging standard.
10) 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).
11) Cloud storage
Cryptee - encrypted service to store notes, documents and photos.
Ente - encrypted cloud storage.
Filen - encrypted cloud storage.
The Good Cloud (Nexcloud host).
12) 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:
13) Others
Liberapay - donations platform.
LibreSpeed - speedtest (no flash, java, or websocket).