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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Someone tell this to gamers.
Gamers don't even seem to be the main issue... they mostly use it as a voice-chat app to replace Teamspeak/Ventrilo and will happily move to something else if Discord ever decides to try and monetize their service (hopefully by then Mumble will work well in the browser).
The bigger problem are people like the Rust community that do all their development communication though Discord and will be totally vendor locked in the future.
What. Discord is monetized.
Lol, not even close. They are still burning through investor funds AFAIK.
They were making $130 million two years ago. They're gonna do anything beyond just add on to their current system.
What are their expenses?
They have more than 600 staff and just got another half billion USD in VC funding. I highly doubt that they actually make a profit right now, but there are no good public figures on that.
servers and programmers. neither are free.
I'm about to generalize...
Gamers don't have it in them to care about the nuance of privacy, or their future well being. Just look at them, the console gamers buy into a dystopian walled garden, and PC gamers aren't too far behind, dealing with Microsoft's control subverting spyware of an operating system. I don't see this group making smart moves for themselves.
#notallgamers don't @ me.
IMO gamers are like this because, throughout the years, they have been slowly desensitized through more and more agressive practices: starting with "please don't redistribute" and ending with literal rootkits