A great resource that makes it quick and easy to find alternatives to Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Adobe and many more.
Really wish when I clicked on the alternative for change.org one of the choices would have just been “a gun”
There are a few good alternatives and swiso has been aware of them for ~4+ years:
In Advanced Users they link to
computefreely.org
forapproachable and friendly for people curious about free and open source operating systems and Linux distributions
which is definitely not the content there. Looks like the original website went defunct in 2022 between January and May. Their website repo is archived.
/edit: I saw the website is open source and created a change request.
Anyway, I’d be careful about how up-to-date this website is, and what it links to.
For political issues, you should petition governments directly on issues.
Not sure if this is a great alternative. This is a thing that is totally dependent from country to country. In my country, there is no such platform that I’m aware of (on the local or national level at least. Ok, I may petition the EU, but they may just have no responsibility into my matters).
Many institutions do have email addresses though, and if, for example, you have a website, you can write an email template and point to an institution where people could send that email. Even that I don’t know how feasible it could be, but it could be more doable in more parts of the world, I think.
Otherwise, for Romania there is declic.ro, a platform owned by an NGO who relies solely on donations to run it, and also runs its own campaigns.
eclic.ro is an exclusive Cloudflare site just like change.org is. Exclusivity is obviously quite lousy for democracy. Better alternatives are here:
My problem with these lists is they never provide any sort of evidence as to why these suggestions should be trusted. No discernable criteria that a suggestion in a category has to meet, no evidence the site fact checks its suggestions.
If you look in their bug tracker, it actually reveals that they ignore dirt that has been dug up on their suggestions.
Adobe {product name} -> Cracked Adobe {product name}