Libre Culture
What is libre culture?
Libre culture is all about empowering people. While the general philosophy stems greatly from the free software movement, libre culture is much broader and encompasses other aspects of culture such as music, movies, food, technology, etc.
Some beliefs include but aren't limited to:
- That copyright should expire after a certain period of time.
- That knowledge should be available to people, not locked away.
- That no entity should have unjust control or possession of others.
- That mass surveillance is about mass control, not justice.
- That we can all band together to help liberate each other.
Check out this link for more.
Rules
I've looked into the ways other forums handle rules, and I've distilled their policies down into two simple ideas.
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Please show common courtesy: Let's make this community one that people want to be a part of.
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Please keep posts generally on topic
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No NSFW content
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When sharing a Libre project, please include the name of its license in the title. For example: “Project name and summary (GPL-3.0)”
Libre culture is a very very broad topic, and while it's perfectly okay for a conversation to stray, I do ask that we keep things generally on topic.
Related Communities
- Libre Culture Memes
- Open Source
- ActivityPub
- Linux
- BSD
- Free (libre) Software Replacements
- Libre Software
- Libre Hardware
Helpful Resources
- The Respects Your Freedom Certification
- Libre GNU/Linux Distros
- Wikimedia Foundation
- The Internet Archive
- Guide to DRM-Free Living
- LibreGameWiki
- switching.software
- How to report violations of the GNU licenses
- Creative Commons Licenses
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I rarely if ever use youtube. The only experience I have with youtube is content made for the sake of profit and not for the sake of actual content. i.e. tutorial videos are split into multiple parts for more ad-revenue and it's difficult to find the information you need as you can't just ctrl+f the keyword you're looking for, so if you scroll through the video because it's 5+ minutes long to try and find it, you'll end up spending 10 minutes just trying to find the damn thing by trying to avoid all the meaningless fluff.
If I want information or entertainment, I much prefer to get it from articles or forums. Sadly, youtube is massively profitable and more and more people are making fluff videos rather than writing a concise article. I really don't know why anyone would need or want youtube/videos other than the aforementioned migration issue.
Even though there's certainly a whole lot of "bad" or "junk" content, there's also many really good creators, mostly in the essay/informative/science area. For me, there's simply no better alternative from a content standpoint; YouTube is, unfortunately, unparalleled... If you want, I can list some channels I find worthwhile, for you to check out, in case you're interested.
PeerTube has potential but needs to work more on onboarding, content discovery and curation. LBRY/Odysee/D.Tube are way too centralized and tied to cryptocurrencies which makes me uncomfortable.
Being a big fan of the fediverse PeerTube was my first choice but I could never find an instance with enough apealing content or any discovery service that could help me find good content scattered on all existing instances.
people create content for youtube because they make money off youtube. from what pretty much everyone claims, their algorithms and content discovery/curation is unfair and mainly highlights content that will make both google and the user more click revenue (by giving space to already popular users). peertube etc. do not reward content creators and thus do not see as many willing to produce content, as well as having less viewers in general, creating a catch-22. the world today is sadly all about monetizing your hobbies and exposition to monetize yourself.
Well there certainly is some junk (a lot?) on youtube but I find a lot of content I like watching there, some deeply technical and intelligent stuff and some pure enteraining silly stuff, I don't mind as much as I enjoy it.
which is fine, and if the creator didn't care about monetizing their content, they could put it up on alternative services. sadly, they won't.