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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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I was wrong about Google and Facebook: there’s nothing wrong with them (so say we all) (ar.al)

submitted 2 years ago by anova@beehaw.org to c/libre_culture@lemmy.ml

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"Mozilla is now trying to diversify its revenue stream and, in some markets, has different default search engines. For example, it partners with privacy-championing Chinese search engine Baidu"

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

I'm on board with the message, and to reach a wider audience I can definitely humor it being delivered with some snark. But this is mostly just snark without a solution in sight.

No, it's absolutely not great that GNOME, Mozilla et al have ties in that way. But, while they might have some leeway to do things better, ultimately they need a big chunk of money to fill the role that they have.

Not taking the money and not filling that role isn't particularly useful. Everyone could be using Xfce right now. And everyone could be using Dillo or hell, a fork of Google's browser, right now.

Even the author himself is using GNOME over Xfce, which I don't care to attack, but chances are that the GNOME Foundation is doing something with that Google money to make it preferable to him.

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

Was a joy to read, finally someone told the truth!

[–] Kajika@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I guess even here we will have people naive enough to think that Microsoft loves FOSS because it does some charity and not everyone inside the company thinks the same...

Google donation is just a green-washing-style move, same for Facebook, Apple, etc. The funny thing is I am reading here: "the truth" despite all of the above having been found guilty on multiple occasions by different justice system around the world of illegal data collection/usage.

Those big corporation are made of many teams with many people. Some are better then others but the system is bad by design. You can convince yourself that all is fine and this will ease a lot of things indeed, especially about money. But the problems are just going to get bigger. We shouldn't assume Mozilla is going to get better. Most of entities goes worse with time as people only interested in their careers and money join them.

I'd rather get article with facts and showing real changes about the governance itself of such companies before starting so say that they are any good.

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

Whatever people see is just the good side of the company. That's the whole purpose of the marketing team, it's there to ensure no one thinks badly about these companies

[–] CodeAssembler@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The article is clearly satire, just read some other articles of this blog.

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

Thanks, wouldn't have realized. What a relief.