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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.

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. That doesn't mean all posts have to be serious though, memes are welcome!
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

MODERATORS

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AshenWolf@hexbear.net

Voyager for Lemmy is really good, and FOSS (github.com)

submitted 6 months ago by quarrk@hexbear.net to c/libre@hexbear.net

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Dropping this recommendation because I’ve been looking for a reasonably good iOS Lemmy app for a year. They’ve all been bad (IMO), but this is so far the closest to how good Apollo for Reddit was, in terms of features and polish. It is also FOSS which is great. I haven’t tried the Android version, but since the apps seem to just be containers for the web app (vger.app), I imagine it’s just as good over there.

The one feature I noticed missing is user avatars.

I don’t know the developer or anything. Just glad to not have to use the browser to use Hexbear.

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[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Anyone know of an android client that can post site emojis?

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

Oh how did I miss that missing feature? I don’t post too often so I’ll just use the browser if I really need to use an emoji lol

[–] someone@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

How does one manually add hexbear to login? I can't seem to figure that out.

Update, eh, nevermind. The default selection of servers is incredibly sus. Lots of servers we've defederated from for very good reasons. I'll just skip this app and keep using the website. It works perfectly on Firefox on Android anyway.

[–] EcoMaowist@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago

There's always Jerboa if you need an android app, though it still can't access hexbear emojis.

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

You have to explicitly type hexbear.net. It doesn’t show up in the search, which is sus but might be a matter of Hexbear not being whitelisted, as opposed to being blacklisted.