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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Email requirement (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by hammsvietro@lemmy.ml to c/libre_culture@lemmy.ml

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Is leaving the email as a required field for registration against FOSS philosophy by any means? even if it won't be used for anything other than user verification/notifications if agreed by the user?

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[–] dreeg_ocedam@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 years ago (1 children)

If you are concerned about the privacy of it all, you can use services like SimpleLogin and AnonAddy, which give you garbage emails. So you don't really give much information with an email.

[–] SrEstegosaurio@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

And if you can selfhost it it's a whole other level.

[–] dreeg_ocedam@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Not really. If you selfhost, all the emails you create share the same domain, which can easily be used to identify you if you're the only one using it. Theses services have the advantage of letting you blend in the crowd.

[–] tomtom@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

i guess you could self host and let other people use it, like what gmail did

[–] dreeg_ocedam@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

You're going to have a hard time getting a crowd as large as SimpleLogin's