Check out peertube

Google Maps

Banking apps.

I think there should be a standard design developed and open-sourced by the government. This would use apis that banks have to provide to access their services.

Some people /orgs can then create alternative apps that fit their need while still having access to their bank.

A bit like being able to choose whatever email client you use regardless of what mail provider you end up using.

Governments

Medical equipment. The software for medical equipment is super arcane stuff, locked behind patents and licensing that only serves to drive the price up. For someone in a less economically powerful country the cost is increased and the quality of care is reduced massively by this licensing. If an open source version of the software for things like an MRI, CAT scanner, ultrasound, and so on could be made it would enable the updating of old hardware to keep it running longer and also make repairs much more affordable. I also think that internal defribulators would benefit enormously from being open source as under the current system they are hackable and can be exploited to wirelessly trigger a shock which can be fatal.

Also consider continuous glucose monitoring and insulin pumps. By combining those two technologies you can essentially make an artificial pancreas and make diabetes much more manageable. The hurdle here is not technological, it is legal. The thing that has slowed down the production of an artificial pancreas is software licensing and legal risk management, nothing technical. Consider this applied to the possibility of a continuous allergy monitoring device which could detect anaphylaxis and administer adrenaline, or maybe markers of a seizure approaching to trigger a much smaller dose of an anti epileptic medication. All unavailable because the development of that technology would not be feasible under the current licensing and liability system we have.

To be clear, I am not saying any of these cure the underlying condition, just that if medical software (and ideally hardware) was required to be open source more of these tools could be developed to help people live better lives independently and safely, and at a lower cost.

It already exists, it’s called Peertube

YouTube is about the video library, not the software. Tons of music industry licenses, copyright and abuse takedown system, etc. It needs tons of people and money, not just software and servers. I’d call it a bad example even. We do need open frontier level AI models. Ok, maybe we need them like a hole in the head, but that’s still a need lol.

Freezers in the supermarkets, obviously.

The alternatives and Solutions always existed, only that they don’t get enough love or support.

Example: localfutures.org VS Blackrock,Vanguard,State street…

Below are privacy preserving, community based software alternatives and some commercial lesser known but better options:

YouTube:

. Newpipe

. Peertube

. freetube app

. Odysee

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Fakebook, Instascam, Twitler:

. Nostr

. Fediverse

. Simplex Chat

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Music production:

. Bitwig Studio

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Adobe Suite:

. Photocraft

. Gimp

. Inkscape

. Affinity Photo

. Affinity Designer

Just to name a few…

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Peoples attention has been highjacked, traumatised and monetised for what’s popular (sponsored) which often poisons your mind, body, soul, tracks and sells your data.

Please give your money to the good people that deserve it and those who are doing a good job in saving your bacon! From your local farmer to your Foss developer! Avoid giving your power away out of convenience, ignorance, fear, or fomo.

Pay to keep it free or updated is preferred.

Cars.

I’m surprised there’s no FOSS alternative that matches the feature set of SecureCRT. It’s the only choice IMO if you have to manage hundreds of devices over ssh. There are kludges on top of PuTTY that try to add things like saved sessions but they still don’t measure up.

Came here to say YouTube. Also because our doctor sent us videos regarding care for our recent pregnancy, so we unwillingly had Google know we were pregnant.

Also computer processors. RISC-V can’t advance fast enough.

Also ticketing. NFTs would actually be great for managing venue ticketing and someone needs to eat Ticketmaster’s lunch.

Definitely YouTube but also…social media for Normie’s that isnt controlled by corpo/government.

Something as easy as Facebook that isnt fb. Its so damn tough to find. Theyre either super complex, dont have enough features, are glitchy, or the project went dead after 3 years.

I really want something I can move all my friends to who will listen but it has to be absolutely perfect or they will be gun shy and never trust me again.

The last time this came up, I pretty much said the same thing. Photoshop, legitimate PDF-like document editor completely free but doesn’t necessarily need to adhere to PDF, pretty much all video games although I am seeing ppl reverse engineering the things I’m mentioning now so idk.

EDIT: After some more thinking, I realized that for some odd reason, Mac OS has some good audio engineering software. I absolutely hate that. I want to add that anything that’s been isolated to Mac OS needs to be open source at this point. Especially good quality DAWS.