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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Well, it's been a few thousand years and we're still having trouble with that part. Why do you think us "using technology" will change that? Tools are tools. Guns, computers, industry, it's all a bunch of tools which only mean as much as the people able to make use of them. People don't just flock to software that shoves ads in their face because they like ads. People don't just not fix problems because they like having problems. Things like knowledge, motivations, environmental pressures, society and economics are all intertwined and determine how people use or don't use tools like technology.
A lot of people on this site including me will say many of the problems are rooted in capitalism and the way it necessarily makes people and companies care about profit over people and society. So, let's say that is the case, how do we do something as massive as abolishing capitalism? The most powerful people in society want to defend it, and to convince others to defend it! It's not easy, and technology only helps so much against an enemy that large.
Revolution isn't unheard of; most people here are in countries that used to be ruled by kings and queens, or by colonial empires. Even socialist revolutions have happened around the world and even in recent decades. But it's not easy, and as always powerful people want to keep things things the way they are.
People have spend decades trying to figure this problem out. Hopefully you can stand on their shoulders and get us closer to a better answer than liberalism was.