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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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Firefox May Have Lost Up To 12% Of Its Users So Far In 2021 (fosspost.org)

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[+] [email protected] -9 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Because they signed one of the RMS letters, because they are being paid by large companies to promote them or because they have been doing random things with their money and closing a bunch of projects?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

None of this stuff have an actual impact on firefox's userbase. The people who decide to jump to another browser based on the things you listed are probably an irrelevant percentage. According to StatCounter, firefox has a ~7% marketshare in desktop browsers. Although this is a very small percentage compared to chromium-based browser's market hegemony, in absolute numbers it's actually a lot of users - who probably don't care about any of these stuff or most likely don't even know what you're talking about if you ask them for their opinion about it. And even among the online firefox community, which is very vocal and critical about ethical decisions (rightfully so, mozilla went through a lot of controversial stuff recently), we can't assume most of its disgruntled users are going to jump to chrome/edge/brave over these stuff, even if we bring in the controversial redesign

Browsers come bundled in phone, laptops/PC, tvs, whatever has access to the internet. Microsoft has pushed his renewed browser like hell on Windows. The pandemic made tech sales skyrocket, and most devices come with chrome or edge bundled in. Firefox on android has always had to deal with the crumbles left by chrome. It's not part of an ecosystem, as its competitors are. I'm not surprised at all about its marketshare dropping this much over the past 1.5 year

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago

I wasn't thinking, thanks for a detailed reply. Tech sales make a bit more sense.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Firefox's only hope is for Linux desktops and phones to gain more market share, where Firefox is most commonly the default browser. However, I don't see Linux (exclusing Android because it's not relevant in this discussion) becoming a serious competitor in the consumer tech world, because most normal users don't care about things like privacy, security, or FLOSS, and Linux does not have the R&D or marketing money to compete with proprietary operating systems in the mainstream consumer world. For servers, embedded, and the like, it's obviously different, but those things are hidden from the average user, and the average user don't really care to know how those things work anyway.

Even among programmers/developers, more people seem (from my admittedly limited observation, anyway) to use Mac than Linux. The lecture halls in my CS classes are a sea of Macs, some Windows laptops (mostly Surfaces), and like five people using Linux. Even the profs use Mac.