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.

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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neovim uses now gender neutral pronouns :) (github.com)

submitted 3 years ago by fruechtchen@lemmy.ml to c/libre_culture@lemmy.ml

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[–] fruechtchen@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

example sentence:

the user will be asked if they wish to save the buffer first (yes, no, or cancel)

i think this is very good. the "generic masculinum" is very sexist

[–] yetwot@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

This is great! Not only does it reduce stereotypes, but it also increases the readability. IMO "they" and "them" feels much more natural and easy to read than "s/he" or "himself or herself".

[–] seahorse@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

My mom was a technical writer for a software company and always loathed the use of "s/he" or "him or her". It's less readable.

[–] 0x90@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes. Very important for technology and science.

We should also define sexuality, genders and furry fetishes for: universe, galaxies, astrophysics, and let's not forget about atoms.

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Very useful.

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

It's actually surprising how many people here aren't okay with this, especially since I always assumed Lemmy to be a mostly leftist/progressive platform. IMO, the new "they" wording sounds way better than "s/he" (and far better than just "he"), and is also inclusive of nonbinary people.

[–] Echedenyan@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

In HexBear, preferred pronouns were added, but not in Lemmy.

[–] k_o_t@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

can someone pls explain why so much importance is put into pronouns? imo it puts additional emphasis on gender when all of us could benefit a lot from deemphasizing it tbh