u/No-Hospital5028

The site: https://keepandroidopen.org/ ,aimed at Google. And the people behind this are not a random crowd: They are 71 organizations from 23 countries, most of them are the names inside your phone and computer.

A lot of us use OpenStreetMap-based apps as alternatives to Google Maps, but there's another part of leaving Google behind: contributing to the alternative.

OpenStreetMap is community-maintained, so you can add and improve places yourself.

If you use JOSM, Website Wizard makes one small part of that easier: adding the official website of a place to its OSM data.

It's a simple contribution, but better community-maintained data makes OSM more useful for everyone using Google Maps alternatives.

Plugin: https://high5apps.github.io/josm-plugin-website-wizard/

JOSM: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/

OpenStreetMap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/

If you rely on OSM-based apps, consider contributing to the map too.

OpenPost is an open-source, self-hosted social media workspace for creating, scheduling, and publishing content.

It combines social publishing with image/carousel design, video editing, media management, analytics, inbox features, and automation. It supports platforms including Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, X, Instagram, YouTube, and more.

Self-hosting is available through Docker Compose, with SQLite and local media storage by default. Licensed under AGPL-3.0-only.

GitHub: https://github.com/getopenpost/openpost

Mullvad is shutting down its public encrypted DNS servers on November 2, 2026, and will instead support Quad9.

Users who manually configured Mullvad DNS will need to switch to another resolver before the shutdown. Mullvad VPN’s internal DNS is not affected.

Read more: https://digitalescapetools.com/2026/09/mullvad-shutting-down-dns-quad9.html

Open-source toolkit for inspecting, editing, and removing metadata from images, PDFs, DOCX, videos, and MP3s. Everything runs locally, with no file uploads or telemetry.

GitHub: https://github.com/songwenlei/metadataremover.ai

Ente Paste is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted Pastebin alternative for sharing sensitive text such as API keys, recovery codes, and private notes.

Text is encrypted in your browser, the server only receives ciphertext, and each paste is deleted after being opened or after 24 hours.

Ente Paste documentation⁠: https://ente.com/help/paste/

Website: https://paste.ente.com/