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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When visiting (usually) poorer countries, many tend to say it feels more authentic. Why do you think that is? And could this feeling be replicated in richer countries? (lemmy.ml)

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I do agree that this feeling points to something true, even though it may be hard to define it. I have some half-baked thoughts but im mainly curious to hear what others are thinking of this

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Probably because people of poorer countries actually have culture that extends beyond capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think settler colonialism plays some part in it too. For example, cultures that have organically developed over several hundred years as opposed to cultures that have developed over thousands of years. But I haven't thought about this particular topic much so I could be wrong.

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

Absolutely. Colonialism's biggest goal was to homogenise according to the coloniser culture, by force, genocide, any means. It is intended to erase languages, traditions, and identity before installing their own, so the colonized are easy to control. Just look at how the US, Canada, Australia. New Zealand, and Hawai'i are considered fully white countries, despite white people being there for less than a hundredth of the time human activity has existed in those places.