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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Its really surprising to me that more channels don't put their content on torrents... that's what I do at least.
Torrents don't really handle content discovery, but they have pretty much solved the static data distribution problem. Something with even 2 or 3 available seeders can't be shut down.
Most torrent clients can even handle rss feeds, which would work perfectly for most youtube like channels. All that we're really missing is these existing platforms like peertube using torrents directly (maybe through a native client or browser plugins ) instead of webtorrents, which haven't gone anywhere for many years now.
Yeah, torrents are great. I've started using torrents to share files with other people are instead of using ffsend (which is great too), and it's very nice.
It would indeed be cool if you could seed videos you really liked through a conventional torrent client.
Isn't PeerTube basically "torrents with at least one guaranteed seeder"?
Nop. It doesn't even use BitTorrent (the usual torrent protocol), but rather WebTorrent.
See my other comment.
Whats wrong or even different with "webtorrents"? I thought it was just a torrent client written in JS?
you're saying transmission or deluge should have a firefox plugin to facilitate watching videos that have been downloaded with them?
EDIT: I guess the problem is that you don't get to control seeding? maybe peertube just needs some UI features for that 🤔
WebTorrent is a distinct protocol from BitTorrent, that uses WebRTC instead of UDP/TCP. It aims to be as compatible with BitTorrent as feasible.
This has to exist because implementing the latter is impossible to implement on browsers, with JS.
I highly recommend you take a look at the Wikipedia article.
oh, yeah, that makes a lot of sense. thanks