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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.

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.

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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After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won. (cfenollosa.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I don't know if it's because I'm from Europe or something else but I've been hosting my emails for over 10 years and never really had issues like those discribed in the article.

The only issues I had was when I had to send a lot of emails in a shirt time (invites for a wedding, and it was on a newly created dedicated domain, don't know if that made it worse).

Also when I was hosting at home, but since I moved to a dedicated server everything has been fine.

That being said I agree that we are being victims of a disgusting racket and that something should be done to make sure everyone is doing their job so that we leave a fair chance to competition. There are rules to regulate other things, I don't see why it shouldn't be the case for email and interoperability in general.

Very interesting article and analysis, it's a shame we reached this state though...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Do you have a recommendation on the least horrible big email company to use for a personal domain? I'm using Proton, but I'm mildly annoyed that they don't provide native IMAP - you have to install their Proton Mail Bridge app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I switched to posteo.net for that reason.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What are the shortcomings of the Proton Mail Bridge app?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It requires the paid version. It isn't available for Android. And it just shouldn't be required - email clients use POP3 or IMAP - those are the standards. I respect that Proton is trying to improve privacy with this app, but I wish they offered the option to use the established protocols too.