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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Matrix is the successor to email. Open spec, encryption-first design, federated, much easier to self host and possibly p2p in the future.
I don't think that is true. Matrix could be the successor to mailing lists, as it has interesting properties (anti-censorship, consensus-building) for that usecase. But so far matrix implementations are too reliant on huge databases to become practical... I hope the situation continues to improve in the coming years.
It leaks plenty of metadata. Also it's hardly easy to self-host.
How do you avoid leaking metadata to your server in a federated system?
By using onion routing to connect to it, as Briar does. Also by not having a server at all, again as Briar does.
Briar's server is the app itself, all federation metadata concerns also apply to p2p federation. Your briar app leaks metadata to every other device it talks with.
Link please, most of the search results for that don't seem to be what you're referring to.
https://matrix.org/
Does the matrix protocol even enable an inbox-message-delivery type of communication similar to email, or is it all about room synchronisation?
At least with the current clients even a 1to1 chat is a room state synchronised across the involved servers, and doesn't lend itself to managing messages in an inbox very well.
Its even better than email in that regard, you have to accept a message request before they can spam you. And it looks really no different from email, with a list of conversations being equivalent to your inbox.
And isn't there a way to sign into things with Matrix? Like OAuth? I thought I heard of that somewhere.
No matrix has its own auth system for signing into it. But more importantly they have bridges that can connect matrix rooms to other services, like IRC, xmpp, etc.