Libre Culture
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.
Check out this link for more.
Rules
I've looked into the ways other forums handle rules, and I've distilled their policies down into two simple ideas.
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Please show common courtesy: Let's make this community one that people want to be a part of.
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Please keep posts generally on topic
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No NSFW content
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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.
Related Communities
- Libre Culture Memes
- Open Source
- ActivityPub
- Linux
- BSD
- Free (libre) Software Replacements
- Libre Software
- Libre Hardware
Helpful Resources
- The Respects Your Freedom Certification
- Libre GNU/Linux Distros
- Wikimedia Foundation
- The Internet Archive
- Guide to DRM-Free Living
- LibreGameWiki
- switching.software
- How to report violations of the GNU licenses
- Creative Commons Licenses
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I used to watch DT on youtube because he covered open source stuff until I ran into one of his videos where he exposed he was an asshat when he went off about how "broken people" are trying to inject ethics into foss with the ethical software movement.
ughh we need people like him that dont suck doing the kind of thing you describe
This is the video that made me unsubscribe from him, I don't actually know that much about the ethical software movement but even if he was right the philosophical framing he applies to the whole conversation is really problematic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQW2iOwwMsE
Thanks for digging up the link, never heard of him. I actually watched all 11 minutes of that to see if he gave any actual examples of ethical software projects or advocates but just a lot of name calling and comparing infringement of software freedom to the persecution of jesus.
https://invidious.tube/watch?v=wQW2iOwwMsE
The ethical software movement is still pretty dumb tbh
I mean whether it is or it isn't, DT used it as a pretext to trot out his dumpster views
I mean I did watch that video but I don't really remember it.
TBH I do not care about people's political opinion as long as what they say is useful to me...
Regarding ethical software, a quote from good ol' Stallman:
Honestly there is a discussion to have here, especially about how much of substance "good ol' Stallman" really has to say in the realm of ethics based upon his behavior but my comments where about DT and the above video.
If you wanna talk about that, watch the video.
Yeah that was just a side note. But ignoring ethics, he got the practicality right: if someone's evil enough to torture people, then a software license is probably not going to prevent them from doing it.
Also, the vast majority of proprietary software licenses include causes against redistributing and using the software to commit crimes. Did it help? I don't think so
Yah I mean thats fair. I just think again DT makes such a shitty point out of this in the linked video. I mean look at the damn comments and all the toxic waste of human beings it brings out of the wood work who are like "yah DT, this is why I love you!".
Its not a cute look.