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Now that it seems like we are de-fedding (pun intended) with db0, we need a piracy comm. (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As the title says. I am willing to moderate it if need be, but I suppose there is better comrades out there for that job.

edit: also if 'eugene' style memes can get banned there for being """tankie adjacent""" we need a piracy comm on Hexbear.

https://hexbear.net/post/2484423

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

ehhhh kinda. but libre specifically refers to free and open source software, piracy is a bit different. if you want to make a rule that pirate-jammin posting gets put in libre that'd be alright, but I think a dedicated piracy community would be a better option.

at the end of the day, you're a site admin with like 100000000000 times more experience than me so the choice is yours. just offering my perspective. no matter what you choose to do, i still love and appreciate all of the admins on this site!

[+] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

edit: i'm going to actually add [email protected] 's comment here:

It's a weird pair of things to put together. People call open source libre specifically because they want to emphasize that it's free as in the freedom to control what the software on your own computer does, rather than free as in you don't pay for it (gratis). Pirating is only free in the gratis sense, not the libre one.

Free software is a vision of a non-capitalist mode of production for software* while piracy is about reclaiming stuff that was still produced under a fully capitalist system. Putting them together is like making a shared comm for cooperatives and dumpster diving.

This is a perfect articulation of the way i feel about this.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I am also in agreement with owls comment, It's called c/libre specifically for the fact that it is about the freedom, not the price. Piracy fails at being libre software since it doesn't conform to the four freedoms

The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).
The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.