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Slightly OT but if I'm ever in need of a comprehensive list of alternatives to services, I'm just going to post that I'm building one. I just knew when I saw this post that the thread would be full of preexisting projects.

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If you're ever in need of alternative methods of finding alternatives to services, you could always check out the alternatives to AlternativeTo page: https://alternativeto.net/software/alternativeto/

I checked the alternatives to AlternativeTo, but they didn't provide good alternatives to AlternativeTo. Can you suggest an alternative?

GNUAlternativeTo :)

Alternative Tgnu

I know you are joking, because they actually list alternatives: https://alternativeto.net/software/alternativeto/ Big kudos to them.

Hah. Fair play to them.

Following the word play of the main post may I suggest nativealter.net?

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted Is also sometimes quite helpful, at least when you search for something to self host.

https://github.com/GorvGoyl/Clone-Wars

> the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law

Maybe this should be formalized as a corollary of Cunningham's Law.

Slightly OT but have you heard of Cactus chat? It's a great alternative to disqus.

https://cactus.chat/

Smart strategy. Maybe someone could even make a project out of that called RedditAlternativeTo.

You dont need to. Check the awesome self hosted lists on github. Work is already mostly done.

but those alternatives are all self-hosted, which doesn't help much if you don't plan on self-hosting anything

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