Hey everyone, I had a bit of an interesting idea recently. We should have our own Libre Culture Lemmy Book and/or Film Club! The rules are quite simple.

Any content we choose to discuss must be either in the public domain or must have a license that’s approved for free cultural works.

Every three months, we vote on a new film or novel to read, or a collection of short stories that are about the length of a novel combined. Other media could be allowed as well. Downvoting suggestions isn’t allowed, unless the suggested content is inappropriate.

I can’t wait to see how this’ll go! Please let me know what you guys think of this idea, and let’s begin voting in this comment section what we’d like to watch/read in March!

    • LofenyyOPM
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      5 years ago

      Haha thank you! The whole thing started three days ago when I found a crate of school supplies and books behind the dumpsters outside my work. I took two books out of the pile, they were the only things that were remotely valuable, and I took them home with me. It looks like some kids were trying to burn them. I decided to deliver them to the nearest Little Free Library, and at that time I was chatting on Mastodon with Emacsen, who wrote some excellent blog posts on OpenStreetMap that I loved. It gave me the idea of mapping out all the LFL’s in my city by telling locals about OSM and asking them if they know where any are so I can add them.

      Then two days ago, I was sitting on my bed looking at the two books. They’re both called “Readers Digest Condensed Books”, which gave me the idea about assembling a bunch of CC and public domain works into a series of digests that can be read on your way to work and such, but then after looking into it, it became obvious that for a three month period, just one average sized novel would do.

      I had the idea of a once a year CC movie night already, but it was on the backburner and I doubted it’d be popular. I ended up combining the ideas together and that’s how I came up with this idea.