Libre Culture

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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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I was wrong about Google and Facebook: there’s nothing wrong with them (so say we all) (ar.al)

submitted 2 years ago by anova@beehaw.org to c/libre_culture@lemmy.ml

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"Mozilla is now trying to diversify its revenue stream and, in some markets, has different default search engines. For example, it partners with privacy-championing Chinese search engine Baidu"

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

I'm on board with the message, and to reach a wider audience I can definitely humor it being delivered with some snark. But this is mostly just snark without a solution in sight.

No, it's absolutely not great that GNOME, Mozilla et al have ties in that way. But, while they might have some leeway to do things better, ultimately they need a big chunk of money to fill the role that they have.

Not taking the money and not filling that role isn't particularly useful. Everyone could be using Xfce right now. And everyone could be using Dillo or hell, a fork of Google's browser, right now.

Even the author himself is using GNOME over Xfce, which I don't care to attack, but chances are that the GNOME Foundation is doing something with that Google money to make it preferable to him.