LibreWolf is what FireFox was supposed to be: no VPN ads, no telemetry, no AI, uBlockOrigin built in. It's literally the latest FF release, but with the crap ripped out and decent privacy installed.

https://librewolf.net/

XMPP. It replaced WhatsApp in my family that signal failed to do.

There is also signal-FOSS as an alternative to signal and Molly

Signal-FOSS

https://www.twinhelix.com/apps/signal-foss/

A fork of Signal for Android with proprietary Google binary blobs removed. Uses OpenStreetMap for maps and a websocket server connection, instead of Google Maps and Firebase Cloud Messaging.

add the repo to your app store to F-droid basic

https://fdroid.twinhelix.com/fdroid/repo/

The twinhelix repo is in the droidify and neostore repo list.

Immich!

Keeping personal photos off someone else's server and stopping google and apple from training their AI on your nudes.

CoMaps, formerly known as Organic Maps.

I advise you to post any recommendations to the original post, I was just sharing it here so others can find it! I also wanna see those recs myself so that's the motive for posting this 😅

GNU Jami, when I can get it to work and not jank up the sound too much. https://jami.net/

Matrix is good for communication.

VeraCrypt, Clonezilla, Joplin, Futo voice and Futo keyboard, Sentry, Wasted, Untracker, WTMP app, Fossify app suite.

Any Linux distro

I recommend my python script, Tonto2.

• https://pypi.org/project/tonto2/

What does Tonto2 do?

It keeps lists.

You can use lists to keep in touch with family, friends, and cow-orkers.

Tonto2 keeps four kinds of lists:

• You can use an address list to keep track of contacts' phone numbers, mailing addresses, and eMail addresses.

• You can use a calendar to remind you about events and appointments including date, time, and duration. You can add notes about finding the location and other prerequisites to attendance.

• You can keep separate passwords in a password list for every website you visit and every piece of gear you own.

• You can keep links to favorite websites in a bookmark list.

Additionally you can make a list of bibliographic entries for writing research papers and for saving well-formatted footnotes for Web sites, but this is an arcane topic that will probably not be of general interest.

The information in these lists is at your fingertips.

You own it, and you can keep it. You can share it piecemeal with other people and computers without having to trust anyone or any thing with the whole enchilada. This is the idea of Tonto2.

Picocrypt, which is an encryption tool for files and folders. It's a 3MB application that utilizes XChaCha20 as its encryption algorithm. It isn't developed anymore, but it's well worth it regardless.

Neigsendoig, my producer, just started using it, learning how it works.

OnionShare

open keychain - foss to to track pgp keys and generate them

The best Portmaster (Windows, Linux) and InVizible Pro for Android and forks (LinageOS, /e/OS....), apart common sense (PEBCAK license)

Surrey for the tangent, that might be my favourite comic of all time. I think it's an incredibly valuable lesson menu pepper still and always will need to learn at some point in their lives

Florisboard. Android keyboard, doesn't have spell checking yet but I've been using it for years, you might not need autocorrect as much as you think! (Note for Samsung users: Samsung Keyboard keeps adding items to its clipboard history whether it's default or not. Clipboard history is also accessible through Edge Panels. Your passwords might end up and sit there for a long time... you can use adb to disable com.samsung.android.app.clipboardedge and com.samsung.clipboardsaveservice.)