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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how to get rid of rullers and make governments obsolete? (lemmy.ml)

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

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I am just wondering why we dont using technology to rull the world together yet...

just get unite and work together

how many people using open source hardware/software?

I have a lot of questions and I wanna hear ALL opinions..

no prejudice so kill me now ;)

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

digital file sharing [..] has had MASSIVE benefits in information sharing and accessibility of some information [..] but has also prompted artificial scarcity

You mean artificial scarcity of those resources by, for example, companies charging access fees, as is the case with scientific journals?

I think that problem is still inherently a cause of scarcity. File sharing is cheap enough that it doesn't have to be scarce, but companies want money, and they've figured out a way to make those resources artificially scarce. But if food and shelter and whole bunch of other stuff wasn't scarce, companies wouldn't even need to exist. Why work if all resources are readily available for free?

Do note that I'm talking about some Startrek-esque future utopia with basically unlimited availability of electric power, natural resources and automation. Maybe we'll get that far as a species someday, but for now I guess there's plenty of scarcity to go around. Pun intended. ;-)