Links For Open Source Research 

 

Good and OK Social Media: 

•Hulet’s Backgrounder: https://billhulet.substack.com/ 

• Lemmy: https://join-lemmy.org/ 

• Mastodon: https://joinmastodon.org/ 

• Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.org/how-to-join 

• Antenna Pod: https://antennapod.org/ 

• Substack: https://substack.com/about 

 

Open Source Software: 

• Linux: https://distrowatch.com/ 

• LibreOffice: https://www.libreoffice.org/ 

• GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/ 

 

Browsers, Bad and Better: 

• Qwant: https://about.qwant.com/en/ 

• Brave: https://search.brave.com/ 

• SearXNG: https://docs.searxng.org/ 

 

Getting Around Paywalls and Digital Rights Management Software:

• Tube2Go: either GitHub or a Linux apps repository 

• Archive Today: https://archive.ph/ 

• Sci Hub: https://www.sci-hub.st/ 

 

Useful On-Line Allies: 

• The WayBack Machine: https://web.archive.org/ 

• The Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 

• The Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 

• Bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/ 

 

Pattern Analysis and Recreation Software (So-Called “AI”):

• Chapt GPT: https://chatgpt.com/ 

• Deepseek: https://www.deepseek.com/ 

• Brave AI: https://usebraveai.com/