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Digital Fiefdom (aka walled-garden) Required

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This community collects stories, cases and situations where people are forced into a walled-garden to carry out a public transaction or essential task of some kind. As governments impose a digital transformation policy with no analog refuge, people are forced into becoming serfs in a technofeudal system that is subservient to lords (Microsoft, Cloudflare, Google, etc).

Well-known walled gardens include (but are not limited to):

(note I do not say X or Meta above because I do not recognize or promote obnoxious and detrimental trademarks)

¹It’s somewhat unlikely that a gov would impose Github, but it is listed as an example because some govs do have git services. E.g. the EU has a public-facing self-hosted git instance.

Somewhat related communities:

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(metapost) Just created this group 1hr ago and already have 35 subscribers (lemmy.sdf.org)
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I am certain this community is not instantly popular. Even in the fediverse most people are fine with walled-gardens (we know this from Lemmy World). So just pointing out it’s interesting that 35 bots instantly monitor new communities as soon as they are created.

(BTW: “metapost” in the subject means it’s an off-topic post about the community itself. It’s not a reference to that shitty corp that has hijacked a generic word for commercial exploitation)

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

I appreciate the feedback. Maybe they are mostly human then. I did not realise there was a trending community view or timeline.

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

You are here 🙂

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

I am just now seeing your image because I normally have images disabled. So when I 1st saw your msg, I only saw “you are here” and didn’t understand what you were conveying. Colon needed! Thought you were saying i would be a human subscriber.

Wow, that’s a clean inbox you keep!