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While trying to make a list about piracy, I realized that it's pointless and that at the current day, legal free stuff is way more than paywalled stuff, if you are looking at the right places.

Also in my opinion, if free offering companies got big they will rise their products quality and eventually will normalize the culture of getting your stuff for free, instead of paying for it or pirating it.

So that bring me back to this question, is there is any currently active list of legal free stuff?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

Github is full of lists of things. There are even several lists of "awesome lists". Far more than I can list here, and it starts to get painfully recursive (an awesome list of awesome lists of awesome lists?). Just search for "awesome list" on github; some live outside of github, so you could search for "awesome list" in Ecosia, or DDG, or whatever you use.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software https://openalternative.co/

Self-hosted software https://selfh.st/apps/

A list of free, self-hosted software https://awesome-selfhosted.net/ - https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

Open source (OSS) Blacklist: A blacklist for keeping track of OSS hostile companies/organizations https://sh.itjust.works/post/13060070 - https://codeberg.org/QazCetelic/OSS-Blacklist

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

There's also the fsf software wiki

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Thank you, I might create a list that does not include software as it has been covered a lot.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Thank you, it's focused on art I might be able to find some good resources there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Most of fmhy is free stuff.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

We need RFMHY

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would love this. Not only would it be great to have a central point but often times their search is bad. Even intentionally so. Like crunchyroll makes it impossible to see whats available to a free account. You end up having to roam around until you get frusted and realize plex, freevee, pluto, tubi, roku, etc has a pretty good selection with less runaround.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That's intended. They want you to run into paid shows you might be interested in---while tech-savvy folks will realize they have better options, the average free customer will keep running into stuff they would want to watch but can't because they don't have a sub, until they cave in. If these services had a easy free-to-watch list, most of those people wouldn't even spare a glance to the paid servings, as they could just entirely avoid them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

oh im aware. expecting me to cave is not a good bet though. there are two options. they can have my eyeballs for the ads which I accept for it being free or their competitor gets it. if they all go away I will visit the library more often. they will never. ever. get a drop from me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

If you are looking for software you might want to look for websites that list open source projects.

I can't really think of decent mega lists though. The FMHY one does have a lot of simply free things but it is mixed in with a lot of pirated content.