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Nearly all video games, and by extension where i get them - Steam. Open source gaming is simply not an option. One can - and i do - stay away from the big annoying AAA companies most of which of just subsidiaries of yet bigger annoyinger tech companies, and Valve is actually pretty decent about open source, but one cannot simply game without proprietary software.
Discord and WhatsApp. Literally everyone i know uses one of them.
For me at least i have no problems with the UI, functionality, etc, of these apps' foss equivalents but the main problem is the userbase. You cannot have a messaging app with no people to talk with and you cannot and a game store with no games to play. You can have the best design and software ever but that won't do shit without the established legacy and publicity of a big company.
There's not a good alternative to Discord for it's usecases. Sorry Matrix and XMPP, despite many attempts at clients to mimic Discord on these protocols they just never cut it.
Maybe a controversial opinion I don't think videogames should be open source personally, they're art and should be unique
Think all the tools used to make them should be and generic modules that could be reused maybe but I see no issue with game devs going closed source with code that's unique to their game