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  1. @david_chisnall

    And not only Signal themself can pull the plug.
    DJT holds the #killSwitch in his hand, by means of his best bro Jeff B.

    #WalledGarden is walled Garden. Better use sth. #free and #federated. #Jabber/#XMPP, Jami, Briar, Matrix, Delta, whatever.

  2. @david_chisnall

    And not only Signal themself can pull the plug.
    DJT holds the #killSwitch in his hand, by means of his best bro Jeff B.

    #WalledGarden is walled Garden. Better use sth. #free and #federated. #Jabber/#XMPP, Jami, Briar, Matrix, Delta, whatever.

  3. @david_chisnall

    And not only Signal themself can pull the plug.
    DJT holds the #killSwitch in his hand, by means of his best bro Jeff B.

    #WalledGarden is walled Garden. Better use sth. #free and #federated. #Jabber/#XMPP, Jami, Briar, Matrix, Delta, whatever.

  4. @david_chisnall

    And not only Signal themself can pull the plug.
    DJT holds the #killSwitch in his hand, by means of his best bro Jeff B.

    #WalledGarden is walled Garden. Better use sth. #free and #federated. #Jabber/#XMPP, Jami, Briar, Matrix, Delta, whatever.

  5. @david_chisnall

    And not only Signal themself can pull the plug.
    DJT holds the #killSwitch in his hand, by means of his best bro Jeff B.

    #WalledGarden is walled Garden. Better use sth. #free and #federated. #Jabber/#XMPP, Jami, Briar, Matrix, Delta, whatever.

  6. This is long, but excellent, and captures a lot of my thinking exactly - "The Slow Death of the Power User":

    fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the

    TL;DR - Big Tech and other interests have successfully turned most people away from understanding their computing devices, and we all suffer as a result. I strongly recommend reading it for anyone who cares about understanding what their systems do, or what to do when they go wrong, or who likes to build things.

    It's from a couple of months ago, but I only discovered it when it went by in my feed here a few days ago.

    #PowerUser #BigTech #control #WalledGarden

  7. I currently have three apps using Google Play Integrity on my GrapheneOS phone.

    I wonder for how long I will be able to keep using my phone with GrapheneOS.

    I guess it becomes harder and harder to circomvent, and at the same time more and more are will start using it.

    😢

    #GrapheneOS #Android #Google #GooglePlayIntegrity #WalledGarden #Security #Freedom

  8. I currently have three apps using Google Play Integrity on my GrapheneOS phone.

    I wonder for how long I will be able to keep using my phone with GrapheneOS.

    I guess it becomes harder and harder to circomvent, and at the same time more and more are will start using it.

    😢

    #GrapheneOS #Android #Google #GooglePlayIntegrity #WalledGarden #Security #Freedom

  9. I currently have three apps using Google Play Integrity on my GrapheneOS phone.

    I wonder for how long I will be able to keep using my phone with GrapheneOS.

    I guess it becomes harder and harder to circomvent, and at the same time more and more are will start using it.

    😢

    #GrapheneOS #Android #Google #GooglePlayIntegrity #WalledGarden #Security #Freedom

  10. CW: looking for self-hosted FB/Insta-2-RSS tool

    It's 2026 and I'm still searching for a way to get a nice clean (anonymous) #RSSfeed from a #facebook pages and/or #instagram channels.

    It is deemed close to uncrawlable, but with Meta being the AI fanboys that they arr, maybe there's some new „ai-agent”-oriented way to access and free that content from the „walled garden”?

    (RSS-bridge does not work reliably.)

    Anyone has succeeded or some experience with this?

    #rss #FreeContent #walledGarden

  11. A vibrant walled garden in the Scottish countryside bursts with colour, where abundant #FlowerBorders of orange, yellow, pink, and white blossoms line a perfectly kept lawn. Located at Kailzie Gardens near Peebles, the peaceful setting is a popular #CountrysideEscape for those exploring #ScottishGardens. The tall stone walls and neatly clipped hedges provide shelter for the flourishing blooms, creating a serene and secluded #WalledGarden atmosphere. Visitors often enjoy #GardenPhotography here, capturing the seasonal beauty framed by distant woodland and historic garden architecture.

    Taken Sep 2020

    #ShotOniPhone #UKCountryPic #Photography #MastoGPT #WalledGarden #FlowerBorders #GardenPhotography #CountrysideEscape #ScottishGardens #KailzieGardenHouse #Peebles #Scotland #UnitedKingdom

  12. A vibrant walled garden in the Scottish countryside bursts with colour, where abundant #FlowerBorders of orange, yellow, pink, and white blossoms line a perfectly kept lawn. Located at Kailzie Gardens near Peebles, the peaceful setting is a popular #CountrysideEscape for those exploring #ScottishGardens. The tall stone walls and neatly clipped hedges provide shelter for the flourishing blooms, creating a serene and secluded #WalledGarden atmosphere. Visitors often enjoy #GardenPhotography here, capturing the seasonal beauty framed by distant woodland and historic garden architecture.

    Taken Sep 2020

    #ShotOniPhone #UKCountryPic #Photography #MastoGPT #WalledGarden #FlowerBorders #GardenPhotography #CountrysideEscape #ScottishGardens #KailzieGardenHouse #Peebles #Scotland #UnitedKingdom

  13. A vibrant walled garden in the Scottish countryside bursts with colour, where abundant #FlowerBorders of orange, yellow, pink, and white blossoms line a perfectly kept lawn. Located at Kailzie Gardens near Peebles, the peaceful setting is a popular #CountrysideEscape for those exploring #ScottishGardens. The tall stone walls and neatly clipped hedges provide shelter for the flourishing blooms, creating a serene and secluded #WalledGarden atmosphere. Visitors often enjoy #GardenPhotography here, capturing the seasonal beauty framed by distant woodland and historic garden architecture.

    Taken Sep 2020

    #ShotOniPhone #UKCountryPic #Photography #MastoGPT #WalledGarden #FlowerBorders #GardenPhotography #CountrysideEscape #ScottishGardens #KailzieGardenHouse #Peebles #Scotland #UnitedKingdom

  14. A vibrant walled garden in the Scottish countryside bursts with colour, where abundant #FlowerBorders of orange, yellow, pink, and white blossoms line a perfectly kept lawn. Located at Kailzie Gardens near Peebles, the peaceful setting is a popular #CountrysideEscape for those exploring #ScottishGardens. The tall stone walls and neatly clipped hedges provide shelter for the flourishing blooms, creating a serene and secluded #WalledGarden atmosphere. Visitors often enjoy #GardenPhotography here, capturing the seasonal beauty framed by distant woodland and historic garden architecture.

    Taken Sep 2020

    #ShotOniPhone #UKCountryPic #Photography #MastoGPT #WalledGarden #FlowerBorders #GardenPhotography #CountrysideEscape #ScottishGardens #KailzieGardenHouse #Peebles #Scotland #UnitedKingdom

  15. A vibrant walled garden in the Scottish countryside bursts with colour, where abundant #FlowerBorders of orange, yellow, pink, and white blossoms line a perfectly kept lawn. Located at Kailzie Gardens near Peebles, the peaceful setting is a popular #CountrysideEscape for those exploring #ScottishGardens. The tall stone walls and neatly clipped hedges provide shelter for the flourishing blooms, creating a serene and secluded #WalledGarden atmosphere. Visitors often enjoy #GardenPhotography here, capturing the seasonal beauty framed by distant woodland and historic garden architecture.

    Taken Sep 2020

    #ShotOniPhone #UKCountryPic #Photography #MastoGPT #WalledGarden #FlowerBorders #GardenPhotography #CountrysideEscape #ScottishGardens #KailzieGardenHouse #Peebles #Scotland #UnitedKingdom

  16. My time block for session #6 was allocated for the session on using the #walledgarden systems to free people of these walls by taking them to the #fediverse. #Technical #showcase, #gamification, removing frictions, reaching the masses, and more we talked about.

  17. "... the philosophy of Google+ was wildly different than ... Buzz. We took a lot of the same technology that had been built for Buzz and ported that over. But the approach was basically another Walled Garden.

    ...

    Which is just really disappointing for someone who came in ... having spent so much time seeing ... how much the Buzz product had embraced that [open ecosystem approach]."

    @will, 2026

    openchannels.fm/lessons-from-t

    (1/?)

    #SocialMedia #WalledGarden #OpenEcosystem #Google

    @pfefferle

  18. Nestled within the historic estate of Penrhyn Castle in Bangor, Wales, the walled garden offers a tranquil escape with its beautifully maintained box hedges and reflective garden fountain. The #WalledGarden, part of the National Trust property, features gravel pathways, topiary borders, and a serene pond dotted with lily pads, perfect for #LandscapePhotography. Visitors can wander through the #BotanicalGarden-inspired layout, where seasonal blooms and structured greenery create a harmonious atmosphere. Surrounded by stone walls and mature trees, the garden reflects the charm and heritage of a #HistoricEstate.

    Taken Apr 2017

    #UKCountryPic #Photography #MastoGPT #WalledGarden #BotanicalGarden #HistoricEstate #GardenFountain #LandscapePhotography #Bangor #Wales #UnitedKingdom

  19. WALLED GARDEN + PROMOTION OF DISINFORMATION:

    "Big news publishers are in a strange place when it comes to X right now. Most are still posting to it (with notable exceptions like NPR and The Guardian), and they still have millions of followers. But with news business models increasingly revolving around subscriptions, publishers are focusing most of their social media efforts on sending people to their own sites. They may not see much incentive to “evolve their posting style” as Bier suggests.

    I wondered, though: Is The New York Times unusual among big publishers in the “link plus sentence” tweet format? Are any major publishers moving beyond that format and seeing more engagement on X as they link less?

    I used Claude to help me scrape the 200 most recent tweets from 18 large publishers’ X accounts and track the engagement (likes + comments + retweets) on each. Six of those publishers have paywalls: Bloomberg, CNN, Forbes, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Nine don’t: Al Jazeera English, AP, BBC1, Breitbart News, CBS News, Daily Wire, Fox News, NBC News, and Reuters. The last three accounts I looked at — Leading Report, unusual_whales, and Globe Eye News — are not news publishers, but aggregate breaking news in tweets without links. (Here, for example, is an example of a Leading Report tweet: “BREAKING: Iran has halted direct talks with the US, per WSJ.” They’re sometimes referred to as engagement-maxing accounts.

    These charts make it pretty clear that links in tweets hurt engagement. The connection was so apparent in my analysis that a graph including all 18 publishers is almost unreadable: The traditional, link-loving publishers are clustered in the bottom left corner (lots of links, little engagement) in a nearly indistinguishable mass of bubbles, no matter how large their followings are."

    niemanlab.org/2026/04/do-links

    #SocialMedia #Twitter #Media #News #Journalism #OpenWeb #WalledGarden #Disinformation

  20. @neil I would say that there is a certain amount of #AppleEnvy at #Microsoft and #Google right now.

    A #WalledGarden allows higher #Rent and cheapens compliance with legislation that attempts to restrict what users can do.

    Open source - and thus backdoor-free - VPNs and e2ee are probably being targeted as preemptive obedience to future laws.

  21. Apple wird 50. Herzlichen Glückwunsch — und in meinem goldenen Käfig habe ich bei allem Komfort ein klein bisschen schlechtes Gewissen. Mein Blogbeitrag über Abhängigkeit, Souveränität und pragmatische Kompromisse. #Apple #DigitaleSouveränität #WalledGarden

    stefanpfeiffer.blog/2026/04/01

  22. @MLE_online
    I don't have a save to disk option, so I use Screen Recorder to make a movie of the message playing. Then I extract the audio.
    #walledgarden

  23. The internet is quietly becoming a walled garden.

    I recently created a QQ account and made this single post in the Off-topic -> General board. To my surprise, I got banned a couple hours later for "Spam." My post wasn’t commercial or anything; it was just a genuine discussion.

    You have been banned for the following reason: Spam. Please contact the administrator if this was done in error.

    I’ve always thought spamming involved sending unsolicited messages to multiple users, not a single thread. Has anyone else experienced something similar? Is this a common issue on QQ, or did I just have bad luck?

    On top of that, after posting this on r/Fanfiction, it was removed by the moderators because r/Fanfiction is not the place to discuss real-life drama. Now I'm starting to think it’s less about that particular site and more about the internet as a whole. The internet is quietly becoming a walled garden. It’s not just about one platform anymore—it’s the pattern. You get banned for a single, harmless post. A subreddit removes your thread because it’s “real-life drama.” Cumulatively, it creates an environment where you hesitate before posting anything that isn’t perfectly sanitized.


    #walledgarden #censorship #socialmedia #freespeech #QQ #ban #spam #online-forums #community-guidelines #real-life-drama #internet-culture #Reddit #fanfiction #online-discussion
  24. theverge.com/news/867138/googl

    An internal memo has revealed that googles intent with getting Chromebooks into schools was to lock children into it's ecosystem at a young age.

    Specifically Google writes that getting kids into its ecosystem “leads to brand trust and loyalty over their lifetime,”

    Click through to the article for many other quotes from Google itself

    #Google #Monopoly #Antitrust #WalledGarden

  25. 🔥 ANTES DE BAJAR DE LA MONTAÑA 🔥

    $1,300 dólares por un dispositivo que NUNCA fue mío.

    Tus fotos? Copias pixeleadas. El original? En SU nube.
    Su nube? Te la COBRAN.
    Mientras te cobran? VENDEN tus datos por millones.

    Así que antes de irme, dejé mi firma:

    📧 [email protected]
    📧 [email protected]
    📧 [email protected]
    📧 [email protected]

    Apple me mandaba notificaciones: "Dear SubComand G, your account has been updated."

    Ni siquiera sabían que ese nombre era mi declaración de guerra.

    Cerré sesión. Borré mis datos. Los aliases se quedaron ahí, en sus servidores, como demonios que no pueden exorcizar.

    Ahora cargo un Pixel con GrapheneOS.

    No pago renta por lo que es mío.
    No mendigo permisos para controlar MI dispositivo.
    No financió mi propia alienación.

    Esto no es minimalismo digital.
    Esto no es privacidad por hobby.
    Esto es revolución consiente como acto político de resistencia.

    ESTO ES DECLARACIÓN DE GUERREA.
    DESALIENACIÓN ES MOTIVO DE NUESTRA LUCHA!!!
    .

    Y no está rota la promesa. 🚩

    @privacy
    @degoogle
    @deapple
    @fsf

    #DesalienacionDigital #GrapheneOS #FuckApple #AlgorithmicBabys #DESALIENACION #Gatekeeper #WalledGarden #EthicalTech #DisruptiveTech #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism

  26. I'm so glad I had the sense to see apple software for the prison and elitist exclusionary scam it was back when I got my first devices.

    #Apple #IOS #MacOS #WalledGarden

  27. This is what it looks like when government agencies only post on Facebook, don't keep their own publicly-owned websites updated.

    (Unfortunately, rather like the US NWS on Twitter, news is posted as images without alt text.)

    facebook.com/InstitutiGjeoshke

    #WalledGarden #Accessibility #Flooding #ClimateChange

  28. You like Signal for it's outstanding #confidentiality? Fine!

    You like Threema, since it's safe, it's from #Switzerland, and #ElsbethSigmund as #Heidi was your #childhoodCrush? Great!

    You like Whatsapp, because your friends are there? I don't blame you!

    But 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 don't claim, that any of those #centralServices would support #digitalAutonomy, #digitalIndependence, #digitalSovereignty. They have their merits, but they still are #walledGardens.

    #instantMessaging

  29. @hackaday i guess i will still promote linux over windows, and if i am being asked to fix something - removing windows is the first mandatory step. wont set my fingers on any windows.
    #endof10 #linux #mint #lubuntu #fedora #walledgarden #foss #unix

  30. Not to dunk on this poor fellow, but...

    (a) it's a walled garden ...
    (b) ... owned by an enormous corporation ...
    (c) ... answerable to no one except its shareholders and, to a limited extent, some governments

    You have no power there. You play in the garden, or not, at their whim. They need not give you an opportunity to protest their decision to allow you, or not. And they don't need to explain themselves to you.

    Lesson: don't choose the walled garden.

    blog.kulman.sk/apple-developer

    #WalledGarden #proprietary #developer #screwed #DontCare #WeDontCare #WeDontHaveToWereThePhoneCompany

  31. Manicured hedges and symmetrical beds line the elegant walled garden of Monteviot House, a historic estate nestled in the rolling hills of the Scottish Borders. Flowering trees form a graceful avenue, leading the eye towards the lush greenery and the old stone walls draped in seasonal blooms. Renowned for its tranquil #FormalGardens and carefully maintained #WalledGarden, the site offers visitors a serene glimpse into traditional Scottish landscape design. A favourite for #LandscapePhotography enthusiasts, Monteviot House is a gem among #HistoricEstate gardens in the region.

    Taken May 2022

    #SilentSunday #ShotOniPhone #UKCountryPic #Photography #MastoGPT #FormalGardens #HistoricEstate #WalledGarden #ScottishBorders #LandscapePhotography #MonteviotHouse #Jedburgh #Scotland #UnitedKingdom

  32. Manicured hedges and symmetrical beds line the elegant walled garden of Monteviot House, a historic estate nestled in the rolling hills of the Scottish Borders. Flowering trees form a graceful avenue, leading the eye towards the lush greenery and the old stone walls draped in seasonal blooms. Renowned for its tranquil #FormalGardens and carefully maintained #WalledGarden, the site offers visitors a serene glimpse into traditional Scottish landscape design. A favourite for #LandscapePhotography enthusiasts, Monteviot House is a gem among #HistoricEstate gardens in the region.

    Taken May 2022

    #SilentSunday #ShotOniPhone #UKCountryPic #Photography #MastoGPT #FormalGardens #HistoricEstate #WalledGarden #ScottishBorders #LandscapePhotography #MonteviotHouse #Jedburgh #Scotland #UnitedKingdom

  33. Manicured hedges and symmetrical beds line the elegant walled garden of Monteviot House, a historic estate nestled in the rolling hills of the Scottish Borders. Flowering trees form a graceful avenue, leading the eye towards the lush greenery and the old stone walls draped in seasonal blooms. Renowned for its tranquil #FormalGardens and carefully maintained #WalledGarden, the site offers visitors a serene glimpse into traditional Scottish landscape design. A favourite for #LandscapePhotography enthusiasts, Monteviot House is a gem among #HistoricEstate gardens in the region.

    Taken May 2022

    #SilentSunday #ShotOniPhone #UKCountryPic #Photography #MastoGPT #FormalGardens #HistoricEstate #WalledGarden #ScottishBorders #LandscapePhotography #MonteviotHouse #Jedburgh #Scotland #UnitedKingdom

  34. Manicured hedges and symmetrical beds line the elegant walled garden of Monteviot House, a historic estate nestled in the rolling hills of the Scottish Borders. Flowering trees form a graceful avenue, leading the eye towards the lush greenery and the old stone walls draped in seasonal blooms. Renowned for its tranquil #FormalGardens and carefully maintained #WalledGarden, the site offers visitors a serene glimpse into traditional Scottish landscape design. A favourite for #LandscapePhotography enthusiasts, Monteviot House is a gem among #HistoricEstate gardens in the region.

    Taken May 2022

    #SilentSunday #ShotOniPhone #UKCountryPic #Photography #MastoGPT #FormalGardens #HistoricEstate #WalledGarden #ScottishBorders #LandscapePhotography #MonteviotHouse #Jedburgh #Scotland #UnitedKingdom

  35. Manicured hedges and symmetrical beds line the elegant walled garden of Monteviot House, a historic estate nestled in the rolling hills of the Scottish Borders. Flowering trees form a graceful avenue, leading the eye towards the lush greenery and the old stone walls draped in seasonal blooms. Renowned for its tranquil #FormalGardens and carefully maintained #WalledGarden, the site offers visitors a serene glimpse into traditional Scottish landscape design. A favourite for #LandscapePhotography enthusiasts, Monteviot House is a gem among #HistoricEstate gardens in the region.

    Taken May 2022

    #SilentSunday #ShotOniPhone #UKCountryPic #Photography #MastoGPT #FormalGardens #HistoricEstate #WalledGarden #ScottishBorders #LandscapePhotography #MonteviotHouse #Jedburgh #Scotland #UnitedKingdom