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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.

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Rules

I've looked into the ways other forums handle rules, and I've distilled their policies down into two simple ideas.

Please show common courtesy: Let's make this community one that people want to be a part of.
Please keep posts generally on topic
No NSFW content
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.

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What did you replace youtube with (lemmy.coupou.fr)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by lionel@lemmy.coupou.fr to c/libre_culture@lemmy.ml

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Hi everyone, I've been following the de-google-ify internet campaign of framasoft for several years now and have replace a lot of GAFAM services doing so but the only service I'm truly struggling with replacing is youtube.

I could never find anything with enough interesting content and I always find myself going back to youtube.

What about you?

did you stop using youtube?
where do you go instead?
do you just spend less time watching videos?

I prefer decentralized solutions but any FLOSS alternative is a good start.

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[–] tmpod 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago

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.

[–] lionel@lemmy.coupou.fr 3 points 3 years ago

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.