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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] 15 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

I think that too many people still have some trust in “do no evil” Google, so people don’t bother with anything else than the default Google Chrome on their Android phones, or find Firefox too slow on mobile.

Most tech consumers don't give two shits about things like ethics of a company, or privacy, or things like that. Also, it's been shown that Google intentionally hampers their site on Firefox (because when you spoof the user agent to say Chrome without changing anything else it magically works fine), and many large sites not only don't bother to validate web apps for Firefox, they straight up prevent it from running (again, usually until you spoof the user agent). People with a good grasp on tech will look at this and realize what's actually happening, but to the average person that uses technology but doesn't necessarily understand technology, and probably have no idea what a user agent is or how it can be changed, this just looks like Firefox is inferior technologically to Chrome, so they use Chrome thinking it's intrinsically better.

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

I agree on your "don't give 2 shits" observation. Many people I know don't even use Chrome but the - still much worse - Samsung browser, and saying that FF is better functionally, speedier, etc. and only takes a second to install doesn't help. They just don't care. Same with ad-blockers: "You can have an ad-free internet, and all sites load must faster!" --> Reaction: "Meh.. [shrug]".

On the whole I never encounter sites that break significantly, let alone don't run at all. Maybe I'm just lucky then :)

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

A lot of the more "advanced" web apps don't "support" Firefox (though Firefox can usually run them with a user agent spoof). The browser version of Skype for example.