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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, I really don't like Mozilla funding model. I wish they'd just focus on crowd funding and building useful services people are willing to pay for. If Mozilla ran a decent mail service with good privacy for example, I'm sure a lot of people would pay for it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Crowd funding sounds like a great idea to me. Running a paid email service I am not sure about. There is still a lot of "freemail" choices like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, GMX, Zoho and I believe most people will refuse to give up on Gmail or pay for email access. (The tech giants with their "freemail" and their addictive mobile apps have already contributed to turn a lot of people into zombies which is actually very bad. More often than not I see parents who increasingly pay no real attention to their children but are hooked to their mobile phones. This alienation will likely lead to new problems in the future. Children imho need a listening ear, empathy and compassion)

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

I could be wrong of course, but I think there's a market for people who are concerned about privacy and would be willing to pay for services like email from a vendor that was explicitly focused on protecting them. Apple has been successful advertising iOS as a privacy focused platform and seems like that's working for them. But email is just an example, I'm sure there are other services Mozilla could offer that would be useful.

And I definitely agree that the way we use the internet leads to a lot of alienation. It's very easy to get sucked into news or social media feeds and become increasingly disconnected from people around you.

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

Isn't that what they're essentially doing with their VPN?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah think so, not sure how profitable it is.