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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.
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
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Just a heads up, I ran my own SMTP server for a couple domains for a number of years back in the 2010's and honestly deliverability was always a nightmare since I wasn't big enough to get my own IPv4 allocation so I ended up using IPv4 addresses that the VPS provider had, and those had serious reputation issues that I had to clean up. Eventually I closed down those business relationships so that I could stop hosting, and eventually set up my SMTP server to be receive only, and pushed all my mail out via Amazon SES (via configuration in my
mutt
config). Really it was so I could useprocmail
for filtering and then also have some very tight reject rules at the MTA (mail transfer agent) so I could block spam.I mean it worked, but it was only for my personal use.
I ran FreeBSD 7 machines with plain old
sendmail
(yikes!) anddovecot
, but at some point I transitioned over topostfix
when the configuration got more complicated. I think it was moving tomaildir
that caused me to move fromsendmail
topostfix