Well it's about damn time that #Apple and #Google's #WalledGardens were cut down. Competition spurs innovation. #USpol #WalledGarden #AppStore #PlayStore

https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/05/06/2252259/new-bill-would-force-apple-google-to-open-app-store-ecosystems

https://cammack.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/cammack.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/app-store-freedom-119.pdf

"In this episode of the #FediverseFiles (2024), ‪‪@docpop‬ talks with @bart Decrem, the co-creator of #Mammoth, an #opensource #Mastodonapp for iOS.

Doc and Bart discuss how the #walledgardens of the present are finally getting some real competition from a better, and more open social web. A return to the original promise of the web. That anyone can find a home, their own place on the internet, and connect with whomever they want without getting trapped within a single platform thanks to open protocols like #ActivityPub and open platforms like Mastodon. Whether it’s through a newsletter, a podcast or a publisher’s website, Bart’s goal is to get a million websites and a hundred million people onto #thefediverse."

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1JKszCKZxqQ

"The Appstore killed the Website Star"
https://www.technollama.co.uk/the-appstore-killed-the-website-star
#Centrality #WalledGardens #Web2.0
#Internet #Browsers #Capitalism

Cmon agencies... This is not how you post emergency/wildfire info.

"This content isn't available right now. When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted."

Walled Gardens Can Kill

https://aneesiqbal.ai/2025-04-18-walled-gardens-can-kill

I hear people are doing a surprise-pikachu about Discord's new ad push?
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/discord-heightens-ad-focus-by-introducing-video-ads-to-mobile-apps-in-june/

Truly surprising that a *checks notes* proprietary, centralized, VC-funded platform started enshittifying the moment it gained enough market share to make it very difficult for people to flow elsewhere.

Nobody saw that coming!

I joined a discussion group involved in open source intelligence. [1] Because I often see links to walled gardens like X and the like in those discussions, I asked what is considered an **open source** write-up for this community?

First answer from an active member, "Anything that any normal person could access is what we call open source.

So a tweet is open source because anyone can make a twitter account in 20 seconds."

I'm afraid I got excited with some journalistic work of the group too early.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_intelligence

Let’s knock down social media’s walled gardens, by Tim Berners-Lee (@timbl)
https://archive.is/2025.03.16-120407/https://www.ft.com/content/79d2d19a-08df-48fc-9a6f-a9dbef58f642#:~:text=Changing%20the%20algorithm,regulation%20around%20this

1/3

Os ambientes centralizados em monopólios tecnológicos não são sustentáveis no longo prazo para uma comunicação emancipadora. De fato.

https://comuna.tech/conectados-e-aprisionados-a-luta-da-organizacao-popular-em-um-mundo-digital-controlado/

TikTok’s Close Call, or Why the #WalledGardens Should Fall

"A potential #TikTok ban would barely matter if #socialmedia users had the ownership they deserve over their networks and identities"

by #JosephGordonLevitt
Feb 20, 2025
https://journal.hitrecord.org/p/tiktoks-close-call-or-why-the-walled?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Amazon stellt Android-App-Store für Drittanbieter ein
Der Amazon Appstore für Android wird ab dem 20. August 2025 nicht mehr verfügbar sein. Nutzer haben bis zu diesem Datum Zeit, ihre Apps zu verwenden oder auf Alternativen umzusteigen. Auch das Coins-Programm für
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/amazon-stellt-android-app-store-fuer-drittanbieter-ein/
#News #Tellerrand #AmazonAppstore #Android #Apps #CoinsProgramm #EU #FireTablet #FireTV #GooglePlayStore #WalledGardens #Wettbewerb

Good morning #HiveMind Any good recent pieces on #Enshittification and/or dodgy #DataPrivacy at #LinkedIn that I should know about?

Context: yesterday I was at a talk by a Chief Scientist at a large government Department who said several times that they wanted to hear from the community and the best way was LinkedIn. No second best way was offered.

Discharging governance responsibilities exclusively via #WalledGardens seems deeply problematic to me on many levels.

VPRO Tegenlicht - De toekomst van het internet (deel 1 & 2)

Error 404, the internet in crisis (part 1 & 2), how we have lost track of the original idea and intentions of world wide web and the internet, with some of the more positive initiatives that hopefully can cause a course correction back in the right direction.

Part 1:
https://youtu.be/bg-SYZ8sBow?si=nO0CQ7VnUZXBKUXo

Part2:
https://youtu.be/IxdRt-WCHjk?si=qjNhWNcsKdPVJ9AV

You know, sometimes I get disappointed when I realize there are fewer people using platforms like #mastodon and that the majority of people in the world will never leave the corporate #walledgardens.
But then I think about when I first used the internet, it was all just a bunch of crazy people self hosting their own websites and just excited to be able to talk to each other, and the majority of people then hadn't ever even been online. Sometimes I get those same vibes from the #fediverse.

We're all just out here.

Happy New Year everyone!

I'm trying, world, I really am. I love my little Lenovo Linux laptop. I'd spend 99% of my time on it.

If I could talk to iMessages.

The messaging platform my entire family uses.

But other than a sort of remote desktop model or setting up my mac to be available via a proxy, there doesn't seem to be an option.

Wail. Woe. Whine.

Those big, convenient platforms with easy access and shiny interfaces aren't as nice as you may think.

Not only do they trap you inside, they also actively stifle your urge to explore; you get used to sitting back and having "relevant content" handed to you on a silver platter.

These walled gardens are poison!

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-internet-is-shrinking/

Who owns your social media accounts? If you're on X, Elon Musk argues that it's the platform. In an objection filed on Monday, lawyers argued that its terms of service (TOS) prevent former Infowars owner Alex Jones' accounts from being sold off without X's approval. Jones' assets are being liquidated to pay the families of Sandy Hook victims after they won a defamation case against him. Satirical site The Onion purchased Infowars with social media accounts forming part of the deal. X's team wrote in Monday's objection: “The Trustee now seeks to contravene X Corp.’s TOS by improperly selling or otherwise transferring the X Accounts (which neither Jones nor his bankruptcy estate own) to a third party." Here's more from @TheHill.

https://flip.it/vgrWfz