Browser:

• Mozilla Firefox (Windows, Mac, Linux) https://www.mozilla.org/
• Opera https://www.opera.com/
• Konqueror (Linux) https://konqueror.org/features/browser.php
• Superbird http://superbird-browser.com/
• Avant http://www.avantbrowser.com/
• Tor Browser. Tor is an encrypted anonymising network that makes it harder to intercept internet communications, or see where communications are coming from or going to. - https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html

Media Tools:

• FFmpeg -Free command line tool to convert video and audio files, extract cover images, compress - https://ffmpeg.org/
• Website to compress Videos - http://compressvideo.io
• youtube-dl -Free tool to download YouTube videos - https://youtube-dl.org/
• VLC Player -This is a free media player and can also be used for extracting audio out of videos. Very useful tool - https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
• Free online BitChute video downloader https://www.downvi.com
• Audacity -Free Open Source Sound Editor - https://www.audacityteam.org/

Webserver:

• Apache - www.apache.org
• Nginx - https://nginx.org/

Website development:

• Perl language - www.perl.org
• PHP scripting language - http://www.php.net
• MySql database - www.mysql.com

Web Content Management Systems

• Oscailt (designed for Indymedia sites -runs this site) http://www.indymedia.ie/oscailt
• Drupal - www.drupal.org
• Wordpress -Blog and Publishing Platform - www.wordpress.org

Text Editor:

• gvim text editor - www.vim.org
• Notepad++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
• GNU Emacs http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

Image Editor:

• GIMP -The GNU Image Manipulation Program - http://www.gimp.org

Email Service

Instead of Gmail

• https://dismail.de/
• https://mailfence.com/
• https://www.criptext.com
• https://tutanota.com/
• https://cock.li/

Email Client:

• Thunderbird - www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/
• Pegasus Mail http://www.pmail.com/
• SquirrelMail http://squirrelmail.org/download.php

Instant Messaging / Chat:

• Jabber - http://www.jabber.org/

Apps & Messaging:

• Signal App https://signal.org/
• Telegram Messenger https://telegram.org/ -Alternative to Twitter & Facebook
• Tox https://tox.chat/
• Jami https://jami.net/
• https://xmpp.org/
• https://getsession.org/
• https://delta.chat/en/ -Delta Chat is like Telegram or Whatsapp but without the tracking or central control.

Alternative to Google & Bing Maps

• https://www.OpenStreetMap.org -Open source maps
• http://OsmAnd.net/ -OsmAnd -It uses OpenStreetMap

Alternative to Google Search

• https://www.PreSearch.org/
• http://www.duckduckgo.com
• https://brave.com/search/
• http://www.mojeek.com
• http://yandex.com
• https://searx.me/
• https://yacy.net/
• https://swisscows.com/
• https://www.searchencrypt.com/
• Reddit - Why You Should DeGoogle & Intro Deoggling Techniques

Secure Operating System

• https://tails.boum.org/ -Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity.

Alternative to YouTube

• http://bitchute.com -This will probaly fall in time to the censors.
• https://webtorrent.io/ -the technology that will let you play video directly on the browser. See https://webtorrent.io/intro for details
• https://instant.io/ where you upload your video that will give you a link back to post here or anywhere
• https://www.brighteon.com -While owned by NaturalNews.com owner, the site allows anyone to host videos.
• https://odysee.com/
• https://Rumble.com/
• https://BrandNewTube.com/
• https://d.tube/
• https://lbry.tv/
• https://freetubeapp.io/ (can watch youtube videos without being tracked)
• https://invidious.tube/ (can watch youtube videos without being tracked)

Social Media Alternatives

Instead of Twitter or Facebook, use Minds, Gab, Pleroma or Mastodon:
Centralized:

• https://www.minds.com/
• https://gab.com/
• https://nitter.net/ (front-end mirror for twitter)

Decentralized (Federated):

• https://pleroma.social/ (twitter-like)
• https://joinmastodon.org/ (twitter-like)
• https://diasporafoundation.org/ (facebook-like)
• https://friendi.ca/ (facebook-like)

Alternative to Zoom

• https://jitsi.org/

VoiceCalls / Voice over IP:

• Ekiga www.ekiga.org
• Twinkle is a SIP softphone for linux only. http://www.twinklephone.com
• Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat http://www.jitsi.org/

Alternative to Instagram

• https://pixelfed.org/ - PixelFed
• https://bibliogram.pussthecat.org/ (front-end mirror for Instagram)

Whiteboard interworking:

• Coccinella - http://thecoccinella.org/about

Alternative to Wikipedia

• https://everipedia.org/ - Everipedia
• https://en.citizendium.org/ - Citizendium

For a comprehensive list of free software, visit the Free Software Foundation Website and go to the page: http://directory.fsf.org/