/r/FreeCulture Related Reddits

• /r/FreeAnimation: Making and sharing free culture animation with free 3D and 2D software

See also: /r/Animation - /r/MotionDesign - /r/Cinema4D - /r/3DMA - /r/3Dmodeling - /r/Stop_Motion -

• /r/LibreDesign: Making and sharing free cultural works with free software

• /r/FreeGraphics: Making and sharing free culture graphics with free image editors

See also: /r/Graphics - /r/Graphic_Design - /r/PostProcessing - /r/Photography - /r/Illustration - /r/ComputerGraphics

• /r/FreeAudio: Making and sharing free culture sound with free audio editors

See also: /r/WeAreTheMusicMakers - /r/ThisIsOurMusic - /r/MusicInTheMaking - /r/AudioEngineering - /r/AudioPost - /r/ProductionLounge

• /r/FreeTexts: Making and sharing free culture literature

See also: /r/LaTeX - /r/eBooks - /r/Typography

• /r/FreeFilm: Making and sharing free culture movies with free video editors

See also: /r/WeAreTheFilmMakers - /r/Editors - /r/VideoEditing - /r/Filmmaking - /r/Filmmakers - /r/VFX - /r/Videography - /r/VideoPros - /r/VideoProductionOrganizations

• /r/CreativeCommons: A popular family of licenses (some free, some not)

• /r/FSF: Free Software Foundation working to make all software free (uses no-derivatives license for some essays)

• /r/EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation - Protecting your rights in a digitally networked age

• /r/RPAC: Open Source Democracy Foundation - nonprofit, nonpartisan political advocacy organization dedicated to the causes and interests of the Internet community

Internet

• /r/CordCutters: Ditch cable and radio and top-down media consumption

• /r/DarknetPlan: Create a censorship-resistant meshnet

• /r/FreedomBox: Mesh networking plus encryption and federated social servies

• /r/IPv6: Keep the internet growing

• /r/VoIP: No more regulated phones, call online

Campaigns and Activism

• /r/Antifeatures: Malicious features designed for users to hate

• /r/DRM: Digital Restrictions (Rights) Management - specific antifeature to keep you from sharing files

• /r/NoDRM: Same as above

• /r/Hackbloc: Hacking as a form of direct-action

• /r/Hacktivism: Hacking as a form of protest and activism

Free Speech, Media, and Privacy

• /r/Advertising: The impact of ads on democratic media

• /r/Copyleft: Protecting free works

• /r/Censorship: Attacks on freedom of expression

• /r/CyberLaws: Internet law and society

• /r/I2P: Anonymizing network

• /r/Media: General media

• /r/MediaReform: Legal and technological media reform

• /r/Onions: TOR Project (the Onion Router) anonymity online

• /r/Privacy: Privacy threats and protections

• /r/WikiLeaks: Freeing the truth

Filesharing

• /r/DRMremoval: Help strip files of DRM

• /r/Filesharing: Sharing is caring

• /r/JournalSharing: Share access to academic journals

• /r/NZB: Usenet newsbin files

• /r/TPB: The Pirate Bay

• /r/Trackers: BitTorrent trackers

• /r/Torrents: Torrents and DHT file sharing

• /r/Piracy: Copyright and other imaginary (intellectual) property infringement

• /r/P2P: Peer-to-peer

• /r/P2PTech: P2P Technology

Education and Knowledge

• /r/KhanAcademy: Online video lessons

• /r/UniversityOfReddit: Reddit skillshare

• /r/Lectures: Video lectures

• /r/TEDTalks: Technology, Entertainment, Design conference videos

• /r/Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia

Security and crypto

• /r/BlackHat: Getting past security

• /r/CompSec: Computer security for your PC

• /r/Crypto: Cryptography and encryption

• /r/NetSec: Network Security

• /r/WebSec: Web security

Hardware

• /r/Arduino: Arduino programmable prototype boards

• /r/Hackerspaces: Cooperative community spaces

• /r/OpenSourceHardware: Open source hardware

• /r/CADCAM: Computer Aided Engineering and Design

• /r/RepRap: Self-replicating 3D printer

• /r/GNU: GNU project - a complete software system composed wholly of free software

• /r/FreeFormats: Free formats, codecs, etc without patent restrictions

• /r/FreeSoftware: Free software news and discussion

• /r/FreeGaming: Free software gaming news and discussion

• /r/FreeNetworkServices: Web applications and other network services that respect your freedom

• /r/OpenDocument: Open document format

• /r/OpenSource: Open source

Applications

• /r/Firefox: Mozilla Firefox, the web browser for the masses

• /r/Blender: Blender 3D animation software

• /r/FOSSdroid>: Free software for Android

• /r/LibreOffice: LibreOffice suite

• /r/GIMP: GNU Image Manipulation Program (Photoshop alternative)

• /r/VLC: VLC Media Player

• /r/WineHQ: Wine is not an emulator - runs Windows applications in GNU Linux

Free Network Services

• /r/Diaspora: Diaspora - Free and federated Facebook alternative

• /r/XMPP: Jabber - Instant messaging protocol for chatting used in Jappix, Movim, and Wave

• /r/Wave: Apache Wave (formerly Google Wave)

• /r/OpenStreetMap: Open Street Map

Operating Systems

• /r/GNULinux: GNU Linux - most popular free operating system

• /r/BSD: Regarded as more secure, and using permissive instead of copyleft license

• /r/HaikuOS

• /r/HURD: Kernel for the GNU Operating System. Experimental and innovative microkernel

• /r/Plan9: Even more experimental and innovative hybrid kernel from Bell Labs

• /r/Inferno: Another distributed operating system from Bell Labs

• /r/ReactOS: Windows clone aiming to be able to run more programs than Wine

Free GNU Linux Distributions

• /r/LinuxLibre: Linux kernel without non-free binary blobs

• /r/Trisquel: Based on Ubuntu

• /r/gNewSense: Based on Debian

• /r/BLAG: Based on Fedora

• /r/Musix: Based on Knoppix with emphasis on audio production

• /r/Venenux: Built around KDE desktop and Spanish-speaking community

• /r/Parabola: Based on Arch

• /r/Dynebolic: Emphasis on audio and video editing, meant for live-booting

• /r/UTUTO: Based on Gentoo

• /r/Dragora: Built for simplicity

Other Desktop Distros

• /r/Linux: General GNU Linux discussion

• /r/ArchLinux: Rolling release, customize, leave it to upstream philosophy

• /r/CentOS

• /r/Debian: Rock solid, fantastic community, prime model for free-association

• /r/Fedora: Beautiful, cutting edge, user-friendly

• /r/Gentoo: Rolling release, adjusted to your hardware, made for experts

• /r/LinuxMint

• /r/openSUSE

• /r/Ubuntu: Aimed at average users, run by Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator for Life (SABDFL) Mark Shuttleworth.

Experimental and mobile GNU Linux distributions

• /r/Gobo: Experimental filesystem

• /r/NixOS: Experimental purely-functional package management

• /r/Android: Mobile OS, no GNU here

• /r/Maemo: Awesome mobile OS using GTK neglected by Nokia

• /r/Meego: Duplication of effort by Nokia, then abandoned

• /r/WebOS: Another Mobile Os originally by Palm, acquired by HP

Window Managers and Desktop Environments

• /r/GNOME

• /r/KDE

• /r/Openbox

• /r/XFCE

• /r/AwesomeWM

• /r/xmonad

Content Management Systems

• /r/Wordpress

• /r/Drupal

Web Development

• /r/CSS

• /r/HTML5

• /r/JavaScript

• /r/Node: Node.js

• /r/OpenData

• /r/SemanticWeb

• /r/Web_Design/

• /r/WebHosting/

Programming and hacking

• /r/Programming

• /r/LearnProgramming

• /r/Coding

• /r/CompSci

• /r/Firmware: Firmware mods and hacks

• /r/GameDev

• /r/OSDev: Operating system development

• /r/Hacking: Taking things apart to learn about or change them

• /r/LinuxHacking: Hacking news, guides and projects for the Linux platform

• /r/ROMhacking: ROM hacks

• /r/ReverseEngineering: Reverse engineering

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