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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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Please show common courtesy: Let's make this community one that people want to be a part of.
Please keep posts generally on topic
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How can distributed and decentralized tools help victims of annexation? (lemmy.ml)

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

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How can tools like these help Ukrainians to stay connected and coordinate? Especially when there is no internet connection.

Do we have tools that could be useful in the fight against misinformation in Russia?

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

Especially when there is no internet connection.

For this, gossip protocols like Briar are good. Otherwise, the good answer is to build actual networks on site. It's not hard to build a local network and it's not have to find a slow uplink to get some information out, what's hard is to provide decent connectivity to thousands of people on a budget if key infrastructure has been damaged.

Do we have tools that could be useful in the fight against misinformation in Russia?

No tool can help against manipulation/disinformation. The only thing that would come close is reputation/karma systems on internet forums, but that does not enforce a single "truth" across the network, and it's a good thing! If your tools can fight against disinformation from a specific actor, it can also be used to fight against actual information from the people, depending on who controls it...

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

For this, gossip protocols like Briar are good.

There is also Secure Scuttlebutt, a protocol supported by quite a few apps on many platforms.

[–] southerntofu@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was hesitating to mention this one! SSB is centered around public info. I mentioned Briar because it's designed to resist passive adversaries. Especially in case of crowded rooms full of people taking shelter (rather than people living on a boat) i wouldn't recommend SSB as it's quite likely your adversary will get their hands soon on the entirety of messages exchanged.

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

Didn't think about that before

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

It doesn’t seem like annexation is the plan here tho.

[–] federico3@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://briarproject.org/ should be the most voted option. It works without Internet connection and even peer-to-peer over bluetooth.