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Welcome to libre

A comm dedicated to the fight for free software with an anti-capitalist perspective.

The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.

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Resources

Free Software, Free Society provides an excellent primer in the origins and theory around free software and the GNU Project, the pioneers of the Free Software Movement.
Switch to GNU/Linux! If you're still using Windows in $CURRENT_YEAR, flock to Linux Mint!; Apple Silicon users will want to check out Asahi Linux.
Social Media Recommendations:

The Linux Experiment: Weekly news host for Linux/libre software related news.
Nicco Loves Linux: Developer for KDE who makes interesting videos.
David Revoy: An incredible artist with a cool webcomic, all done with GNU/Linux.
Michael Horn: Makes videos about his various experiences with Linux.

Rules

Be on topic: Posts should be about free software and other hacktivst struggles. Topics about general tech news should be in the technology comm or programming comm.
Avoid using misleading terms/speading misinformation: Here's a great article about what those words are. In short, try to avoid parroting common Techbro lingo and topics.
Avoid being confrontational: People are in different stages of liberating their computing, focus on informing rather than accusing. Debatebro nonsense is not tolerated.
All site-wide rules still apply

Artwork

Xenia was meant to be an alternative to Tux and was created (licensed under CC0) by Alan Mackey in 1996.
Comm icon (of Xenia the Linux mascot) was originally created by @ioletsgo
Comm banner is a close up of "Dorlotons Degooglisons" by David Revoy (CC-BY 4.0) for Framasoft

founded 3 years ago

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NixOS "Board Observer"/Dronie complaining about gender diversity (infosec.exchange)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't know that much about nix but this seems like a mess

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's always a bit more difficult with communities that run on volunteer labor. I've also experienced this IRL with some outdoor volunteering groups. If someone is volunteering a lot of labor for free it makes it more difficult to bring down the banhammer for things that they say. You hope to volunteer your own labor engaging with them and so maintain the benefits of their undeniable contributions to the community without having to deal with the downsides of them potentially driving other volunteers away.

While a lot of this manifests as having to deal with reddit debate bros these volunteer communities do also work well as places for neuroatypicals, since people are willing to forgive quite a lot of social awkwardness if you're just putting in the work.