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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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How can we have Libre Culture without email? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by sparrow22@lemmy.ml to c/libre_culture@lemmy.ml

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It is so hard to get an email address without providing an email or SMS verification. Like 9/10 on the internet difficulty scale.

Any site that lets you receive email for example by generating a random inbox seems to be blocked by the more full-featured ones that let you send email. I've spent the last week trying to get an email address doing lots of searches and trying to signup for any email address at all without success.

This makes sense if you understand that bots cause problems universally but at the same time the personal information strategy isn't working. Spammers have no problem getting email accounts and every other kind of account. It's the honest person who won't go to the dark side and pay for stolen accounts that is in the worst shape.

Maybe you want to setup your own mail server? Ther you need a domain name and registars want even more information. Many of them give you privacy on your domain records, but this is no defense from the surveillance state.

If as said in the sidebar mass surveillance is about mass control, and not justice, then email is an extremely important technology to start supporting for privacy and freedom.

Spam and abuse are problems to be sure but there must be other ways to solve them than by providing information that links back to the real world.

Now what can we do about it?

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[–] lobsterasteroid@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

See table "Email Hosting market share table" https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/email-hosting--23

Google has 34% market share, Microsoft has 30%, GoDaddy has 15%, and the other 6 providers on that top 10 list are all under 3% each. 3 private, for-profit corporations handle 79% of all email.

If you want to re-decentralize email, and the web overall, you have to figure out what to do about the increasing concentration of Internet infra into an ever-smaller number of hands. I'm guessing there is not a technical solution to this.

[–] beansniffer@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I’m guessing there is not a technical solution to this

We need dead simple turn key solutions for self hosted services. Simple as setting up a wifi router or some other consumer focused device.

[–] lobsterasteroid@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Users get to use networks on terms dictated by their ISP's. My ISP blocks self-hosted email. They did so because it was not in their interest -- spammers were using the functionality to run spam ops. They still allow for self-hosting, but as self-hosting becomes more popular, ISPs' residential networks are going to become a security minefield and an increasing liability. They will tighten the screws on what people are allowed to self-host and how, or they'll just make it painful to impossible.

You could do a "self-hosted" turnkey email VPS, I guess, but then the users have to rent and spin up VPS's.

[–] edumerco@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

We need dead simple turn key solutions for self hosted services.

Does anyone have experience with FreedomBox? (https://freedombox.org/)

It looks very interesting...