Notices by FediFollows ☃️ (fedifollows@social.growyourown.services)

#SelfHosting & #CommunityHosting picks of the day (continued):

➡️ @owncast - Live streaming and chat platform, alternative to Twitch

➡️ @peertube - Video sharing platform, alternative to YouTube

➡️ @pixelfed - Photo sharing platform

5/5

#SelfHosting & #CommunityHosting picks of the day (continued):

➡️ @securedrop - Secure private whistleblowing service, for journalists, NGOs

➡️ @ownclouders - File storage & collaboration platform

➡️ @ONLYOFFICE - Online office suite

➡️ @cryptpad - Privacy-centric online office suite

➡️ @openproject - Online project management software

➡️ @forgejo - Code forge platform, Codeberg's fork of Gitea

➡️ @synoforum - Forum for Synology NAS users

➡️ @hedgedoc - Collaborative online markdown editor

3/5

#SelfHosting & #CommunityHosting picks of the day (continued):

(These are all Fediverse self-hosting)

➡️ @bonfire - Fediverse server & offline hardware storing your data

➡️ @news - Micro- and macroblogging platform with support for many protocols

➡️ @funkwhale - Music & podcast sharing platform

➡️ @gotosocial - Lightweight and safety-conscious microblogging platform

➡️ @mastohost - Mastodon managed hosting service for non-technical people

➡️ @mobilizon - Events organisation platform

4/5

#SelfHosting & #CommunityHosting picks of the day (continued):

➡️ @adminforge - German-language site with tutorials for self-hosting

➡️ @unifiedpush - Push notifications for your mobile apps

➡️ @wallabag - Article-saving service, alternative to Pocket

➡️ @linkstack - Link sharing service, alternative to Linktree

➡️ @veloren - Multiplayer open world voxel RPG

➡️ @Minetest - Voxel-based online multiplayer game engine

➡️ @karrot - Platform for organising community activism

2/5

#SelfHosting & #CommunityHosting picks of the day:

(All of these are FOSS and self-hostable)

➡️ @nextcloud - Host your own personal cloud, with lots of built-in services/apps you can install

➡️ @yunohost - Linux distro which lets you install self-hosting services through a graphic interface

➡️ @freedomboxfndn - Version of Linux designed to make self-hosting services easier

➡️ @homegrown - Site helping non-technical people use managed hosting to run their own online services

1/5

End-to-end Encryption / #E2EE picks of the day:

(all these are FOSS & E2EE)

➡️ @cryptpad - Online collaborative office suite

➡️ @briar - P2P messaging for activists, journalists etc

➡️ @delta - Encrypted chat system, piggybacks existing email accounts

➡️ @Tutanota - Independent email provider, supports E2EE wherever possible

➡️ @prav - XMPP app & service, developed by co-op in India

➡️ @gajim - XMPP app for Linux, Mac, Win

➡️ @Monal - XMPP app for iOS & Mac

➡️ @kaidan - XMPP app for KDE

#Meteorology, #Weather & #Climate picks of the day:

➡️ @TheConversationClimate - News articles related to global warming, written by qualified experts

➡️ @MichaelEMann - Climatologist & geophysicist, particularly focused on global warming

➡️ @Ruth_Mottram - Climate scientist at Danish Meteorological Institute

➡️ @W_Lucht - Works at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, advises German government on environmental issues

1/4

#Minetest is a free open source way-more-moddable alternative to Minecraft, see an in-depth video about it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6Fyav6FiIs

➡️ @Minetest - Official Minetest account

➡️ @rubenwardy - Core dev on Minetest

➡️ @Wuzzy - Creates games & mods for Minetest, also co-dev on Hedgewars

➡️ @survivetest - Survival game mod for Minetest

➡️ @nathansalapat - Tutorials & video reviews of Minetest mods

➡️ @SilverSandstone - Creates mods, texture packs, skins etc for Minetest

Fedi community accounts (continued):
@fedivision - Annual music contest on the Fedi
@FediVideo - Boosting interesting video posts
@fediversereport - Blog devoted to the Fediverse
@FediGarden - Human-curated list of well-run Fedi servers

Android apps:
@PixelDroid
@Tusky
@apps

iPhone/iPad apps:
@IceCubesApp
@ivory

Web apps:
@elk

For Fedi developers:
@spritelyinst - Next gen replacements for ActivityPub
@tootsdk - FOSS Swift package library to help make Fedi apps

(3/3)

Fedi platforms (continued):
@peertube - YouTube-style video publishing
@pixelfed - Instagram-style photo sharing
@writefreely - Medium-style blogs

Fediverse community accounts:
@greenfediverse - Listing servers that use greener energy sources
@Curator - Boosting interesting Fedi artists
@radiofreefedi - Online radio featuring Fediverse musicians
@fediverso - Spanish language tips
@homegrown - Helping non-technical people start their own servers

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Epic list of #Fediverse picks:

Fediverse platforms:
@bonfire - Combining Fedi servers with offline physical data storage devices
@bookwyrm - GoodReads-style social reading network
@news - Flexible multi-protocol Fedi servers
@funkwhale - Music & podcasts
@gancio - Online community calendars
@gotosocial - Lightweight general Fedi server with user safety features
@inventaire - Organising physical book libraries
@mobilizon - Event organisation platform
@owncast - Twitch-style livestreaming

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#Office & #Productivity picks of the day:

(These are all FOSS)

➡️ @bitwarden - Password management software

➡️ @XWiki - Wiki software aimed at businesses

➡️ @CollaboraOffice - Online fork of LibreOffice

➡️ @Carnet - Note-taking app synced with personal clouds, alternative to Google Keep

➡️ @joplinapp - Another note-taking app that can be synced through clouds

➡️ @hedgedoc - Collaborative markdown note editor, web-based and self-hostable

➡️ @synoforum - Unofficial forum for Synology NAS owners

By request, more #Office & #Productivity picks of the day:

(All of these are FOSS)

➡️ @cryptpad - Online office suite with maximum privacy

➡️ @libreoffice - Offline office suite

➡️ @inkscape - Vector drawing software

➡️ @ONLYOFFICE - Online office suite

➡️ @kicad - Electronics design software

➡️ @octoprint - Web interface for 3D printers

➡️ @nextcloud - Create your own personal cloud and cloud services

➡️ @openproject - Project management software

➡️ @thunderbird - Email & comms software

#InstantMessaging picks of the day:

(All of these are FOSS)

➡️ @joinjabber - Grassroots collective encouraging the use of XMPP/Jabber messaging

➡️ @xmpp - Foundation maintaining XMPP/Jabber standard for messaging & calling

➡️ @delta - Encrypted messenger which works through existing email accounts, also allows unencrypted chats with non-users who have email

➡️ @briar - Encrypted peer-to-peer messenger, designed for activists, journalists etc

➡️ @matrix - Decentralised real time comms protocol

By request, #GNOME picks of the day:

➡️ @gnome - Official account for the free open source desktop environment

➡️ @EvolutionGnome - Free open source personal information manager software (includes email, contacts, calendars, tasks, notes)

➡️ @gnomeboxes - Lets you easily download and install an operating system in a virtual machine

➡️ @GNOMELatam - Conference for the GNOME community in Latin America, held online & in person (in Spanish)

➡️ @gnome_br - Brazilian GNOME account (in Portuguese)

De-Adobeing picks of the day:

(All of these are free open source software)

➡️ @kdenlive - Video editing

➡️ @tenacity - Audio editing, forked from Audacity

➡️ @Krita & @krita_artists & @kritafoundation - Painting software, also suitable for drawing, illustration and 2D animation

➡️ @darktable - Photo organising, processing and development

➡️ @inkscape - Vector drawing

➡️ @blender@video.blender.org & @Blender@mastodon.social & @blenderartists - 3D animation, 2D animation, special effects for live action and editing

#Weather picks of the day:

@wxstory_bot - Unofficial bot for US National Weather Service

@DeutscherWetterdienst (in German) - Official account of Germany’s National Meteorological Service (DWD)

@rvaweather - Weather for Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC, USA

@crownweather - Meteorologist at Crown Weather Services, forecasts for Massachusetts

@checkweathersg - Weather bot for Singapore.

@WXFanatic - Amateur weather enthusiast based in US

@wessexweather - Weather enthusiast based in UK

#16Bit picks of the day:

@MrL314 - Super Mario Kart expert and SNES hacker, co-creator of SMK Deluxe, makes SMK deep dive videos

@ansivideos - Videos of ANSI computer text art often on BBSes in the 1990s

@thelastpsion - Covering Psion computers & organisers

@8bitacrylic - Classic 16-bit & 8-bit game art as acrylic paintings

@AtariSTMusic - Posting Atari ST chiptune tracks

@HadroSoft - New MS-DOS games with VGA & Tandy graphics

@cyningstan - New MS-DOS games with CGA graphics

#Libraries picks of the day:

@SarahHLib - Academic librarian at Bodleian in Oxford UK

@wikipedia - Community-run account for the online encyclopaedia

@internetarchive - Massive online archive of printed & audiovisual material

@alaeditionsns - Publishing arm of the American Library Association

@VernonLibrary - Public library in Lincolnshire, IL, USA

@inventaire - Free open software for running private libraries

@Perkamentus (in Dutch) - Antiquarian collecting rare books for private library

De-Microsofting picks of the day:

@libreoffice - Free open source office suite
@LibreOfficeEs - Spanish language LibreOffice user group
@LaMouetteODF - French language LibreOffice user group
@CollaboraOffice - Online fork of LibreOffice for businesses

@cryptpad - Libre E2EE online office suite, strong emphasis on privacy

@ONLYOFFICE - Libre online office suite

@openproject - FOSS online project management software

@nextcloud - Make your own online cloud

@thunderbird - FOSS email software