#walledgardens — Public Fediverse posts

ICYMI: Most advertisers see AI gains only in walled gardens, Taboola study finds: Taboola survey of 200 senior marketers finds 76% see meaningful performance gains from agentic AI tools, but only within search and social, not the open web. https://ppc.land/most-advertisers-see-ai-gains-only-in-walled-gardens-taboola-study-finds/ #AI #DigitalMarketing #MarketingTrends #AdTech #WalledGardens

Ah yes, the groundbreaking news we've all been waiting for: a DIY watch that *gasp* won't disintegrate in a light drizzle! ☔️ Because who wouldn't want to sport a clunky, homemade wrist brick just to avoid the evil clutches of "walled gardens"? 🙄 Welcome to the future, where tech innovation means reinventing the #Casio. 🚀
https://www.hackster.io/news/a-diy-watch-you-can-actually-wear-8f91c2dac682 #DIYWatch #TechInnovation #Reinvented #FutureGadgets #WalledGardens #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, the groundbreaking news we've all been waiting for: a DIY watch that *gasp* won't disintegrate in a light drizzle! ☔️ Because who wouldn't want to sport a clunky, homemade wrist brick just to avoid the evil clutches of "walled gardens"? 🙄 Welcome to the future, where tech innovation means reinventing the #Casio. 🚀
https://www.hackster.io/news/a-diy-watch-you-can-actually-wear-8f91c2dac682 #DIYWatch #TechInnovation #Reinvented #FutureGadgets #WalledGardens #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, the groundbreaking news we've all been waiting for: a DIY watch that *gasp* won't disintegrate in a light drizzle! ☔️ Because who wouldn't want to sport a clunky, homemade wrist brick just to avoid the evil clutches of "walled gardens"? 🙄 Welcome to the future, where tech innovation means reinventing the #Casio. 🚀
https://www.hackster.io/news/a-diy-watch-you-can-actually-wear-8f91c2dac682 #DIYWatch #TechInnovation #Reinvented #FutureGadgets #WalledGardens #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, the groundbreaking news we've all been waiting for: a DIY watch that *gasp* won't disintegrate in a light drizzle! ☔️ Because who wouldn't want to sport a clunky, homemade wrist brick just to avoid the evil clutches of "walled gardens"? 🙄 Welcome to the future, where tech innovation means reinventing the #Casio. 🚀
https://www.hackster.io/news/a-diy-watch-you-can-actually-wear-8f91c2dac682 #DIYWatch #TechInnovation #Reinvented #FutureGadgets #WalledGardens #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, the groundbreaking news we've all been waiting for: a DIY watch that *gasp* won't disintegrate in a light drizzle! ☔️ Because who wouldn't want to sport a clunky, homemade wrist brick just to avoid the evil clutches of "walled gardens"? 🙄 Welcome to the future, where tech innovation means reinventing the #Casio. 🚀
https://www.hackster.io/news/a-diy-watch-you-can-actually-wear-8f91c2dac682 #DIYWatch #TechInnovation #Reinvented #FutureGadgets #WalledGardens #HackerNews #ngated

Newsletter ad spending surged 40% as brands flee walled gardens: Paved's 2026 report reveals newsletter publishers earned 30% more revenue while 64% of marketers adopted the channel, signaling fundamental shift beyond experimental budgets. https://ppc.land/newsletter-ad-spending-surged-40-as-brands-flee-walled-gardens/ #NewsletterMarketing #AdSpending #DigitalMarketing #MarketingTrends #WalledGardens

Newsletter ad spending surged 40% as brands flee walled gardens: Paved's 2026 report reveals newsletter publishers earned 30% more revenue while 64% of marketers adopted the channel, signaling fundamental shift beyond experimental budgets. https://ppc.land/newsletter-ad-spending-surged-40-as-brands-flee-walled-gardens/ #NewsletterMarketing #AdSpending #DigitalMarketing #MarketingTrends #WalledGardens

Newsletter ad spending surged 40% as brands flee walled gardens: Paved's 2026 report reveals newsletter publishers earned 30% more revenue while 64% of marketers adopted the channel, signaling fundamental shift beyond experimental budgets. https://ppc.land/newsletter-ad-spending-surged-40-as-brands-flee-walled-gardens/ #NewsletterMarketing #AdSpending #DigitalMarketing #MarketingTrends #WalledGardens

Newsletter ad spending surged 40% as brands flee walled gardens: Paved's 2026 report reveals newsletter publishers earned 30% more revenue while 64% of marketers adopted the channel, signaling fundamental shift beyond experimental budgets. https://ppc.land/newsletter-ad-spending-surged-40-as-brands-flee-walled-gardens/ #NewsletterMarketing #AdSpending #DigitalMarketing #MarketingTrends #WalledGardens

Today I'm running Madness on Geneva Lake, a #CoC adventure to celebrate the 50th anniversary of #Chaosium (founded 31 October 1975).

There are some editorial problems with the book. In particular, the stats for Dr. King are missing.

In the past, I would have searched #forums for errata or to see if other players had filled in the blanks. But today all such discussions take place in #walledgardens like #Discord which are not #indexed or #searchable.

I guess I'll just wing it.

Pluralistic: Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall! (15 Oct 2025)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/15/freedom-of-movement/

Pluralistic: Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall! (15 Oct 2025)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/15/freedom-of-movement/

https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-210-viva-foss/

There has never been a better time to join the world of Free Open Source Software or begin self-hosting essential digital services.

Some recent news that made me feel grateful for my forays into self-hosting:

1. The software Pocket, which made it easy to save, organize and read later articles in a really elegant interface shuts down this year. Another fantastic app/service to add to Mozilla‘s graveyard. Looking at YunoHost‘s app catalog, I noticed several superb alternatives to Pocket that are free, open source, and can be self-hosted, so I am thinking: never again will I give that power to an outside company. Cherry on top: the Pocket archive I requested the other day landed in my email… and the file contains an error, so I cannot download it (expired token even if it didn’t pass the 72 hour threshold they set). I look forward to self-hosting my next “save and read later” bookmark service.
2. The file sharing company WeTransfer was in the news this morning because they recently updated their terms of service, with alarming language, telling users: “You hereby grant us a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable license to use your Content for the purposes of operating, developing, commercializing, and improving the Service or new technologies or services. Such license includes the right to reproduce, distribute, modify, prepare derivative works based upon, broadcast, communicate to the public, publicly display, and perform Content. You will not be entitled to compensation for any use of Content by us under these terms.” News about this spread like wildfire with people saying this language implies content shared via WeTransfer would be used to train AI models. Now, why is this a big deal you may wonder? In my filmmaking / film editing days I would use WeTransfer DAILY to share cuts of my projects. WeTransfer is THE file sharing app for most creatives and film professionals. I used it extensively in May and June to share versions of the Fediverse promo video with my interns. Well, even if WeTransfer backtracks following the backlash, I would never again consider using it. It’s a happy coincidence that last month I set up my own NextCloud instance and I plan on using it to share files from now on. Excellent timing.
3. Tangentially-related, but an article in Engadget today revealed that users of the microblogging platform Threads rarely click on external links. The numbers are pretty shocking: 28 million referral links in 30 days for a platform with allegedly 350 million monthly active users. This is precisely why I love the Fediverse: external links are never downranked because there are no algorithms. Writers and content creators have far higher engagement with their audience because of chronological feeds and more genuine relationships.

On my to do list for the fall: looking into taking full advantage of NextCloud‘s ecosystem because this software is incredibly sophisticated… the FOSS equivalent of a Swiss Army knife.

For those curious about it, here is their official website with documentation: https://nextcloud.com

Onwards and upwards!

Elena

#BigTech #fediverse #foss #freeOpenSourceSoftware #Meta #micro #mySoCalledSudoLife #NextCloud #Pocket #selfHosting #Threads #walledGardens #WeTransfer #yunohost

"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."

#gripes #publicsafety #walledgardens

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."

#gripes #publicsafety #walledgardens

Walled Gardens Can Kill

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

#HackerNews #WalledGardens #WalledGardenEffect #DigitalEcosystems #TechEthics #OnlinePrivacy

Walled Gardens Can Kill

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

#HackerNews #WalledGardens #WalledGardenEffect #DigitalEcosystems #TechEthics #OnlinePrivacy

Walled Gardens Can Kill

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

#HackerNews #WalledGardens #WalledGardenEffect #DigitalEcosystems #TechEthics #OnlinePrivacy

Walled Gardens Can Kill

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

#HackerNews #WalledGardens #WalledGardenEffect #DigitalEcosystems #TechEthics #OnlinePrivacy

“The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.” Here’s yet another brilliant feature by @Daojoan. “The fediverse won’t succeed just because it’s better. It will succeed if and only if people choose it. If they reject the idea that being trapped in someone else’s ecosystem is just the cost of existing online. If they stop believing that “free” means surrendering ownership of your own connections, your own history, your own data. If they see that the internet wasn’t built to be a factory for engagement metrics and AI-generated content farms. It was built to connect us, not silo us to pad a wealth-extremist’s bank account,” she writes.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-fediverse-isnt-the-future-its-the-present-weve-been-denied

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #DigitalSovereignty #JoanWestenberg #OpenSocialWeb #WalledGardens #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

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

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

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

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

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

This pattern never changes. Someone reports that Paypal is implementing a new privacy abuse measure & dozens of users dance to maintain their Paypal account, instead of walking. This depressing pattern is the same reason the web has become so enshitified and immersed in #walledGardens.

Consumers not smart enough to walk only /think/ going through hoops to opt-out of one small facet of the overall abuse is the smart move, as they continue to empower Paypal with their continued business.

http://7jaxqg6lfcdtosooxhv5drpettiwnt6ytdywfgefppk2ol4dzlddblyd.onion/@[email protected]/113222751209170370

It’s likely because of these loyal Paypal patrons enriching Paypal that I now face having to walk out of physical cafes because I discover their only method of payment is #Zettle, which enables #Paypal to MitM my offline payment in a brick and mortar shop.

At this point, the only thing preventing Paypal customers from being the dicks is their naivety (as being a dick is intentional).

Living in this timeline has been wild.

I'm proud to have been a part of #MySpace, #OpenID, and the #OpenWeb / #SemanticWeb.

I'm sad to see the #WalledGardens, #hiddenCode, and #dataSilos.

Living in this timeline has been wild.

I'm proud to have been a part of #MySpace, #OpenID, and the #OpenWeb / #SemanticWeb.

I'm sad to see the #WalledGardens, #hiddenCode, and #dataSilos.

Living in this timeline has been wild.

I'm proud to have been a part of #MySpace, #OpenID, and the #OpenWeb / #SemanticWeb.

I'm sad to see the #WalledGardens, #hiddenCode, and #dataSilos.

Living in this timeline has been wild.

I'm proud to have been a part of #MySpace, #OpenID, and the #OpenWeb / #SemanticWeb.

I'm sad to see the #WalledGardens, #hiddenCode, and #dataSilos.

Living in this timeline has been wild.

I'm proud to have been a part of #MySpace, #OpenID, and the #OpenWeb / #SemanticWeb.

I'm sad to see the #WalledGardens, #hiddenCode, and #dataSilos.

"Forget the #walledgardens of #BigTech platforms like Instagram, TikTok and X. They pretend to be “connecting people” but in reality they want their users to spend as much time as possible INSIDE their platforms, sharing personal data that can be turned into #targetedAds. That is how mainstream social media profit. Connection is the illusion; ad targeting is the real objective."
https://blog.elenarossini.com/your-data-your-power-the-fediverses-big-advantage-over-the-walled-gardens-of-big-tech/

It seems that Instagram has closed down for good for those who don't have an account there. It is not possible to access any content without having an Instagram account (until yesterday it was possible).

The "Walled Gardens" are increasingly closed.

I recommend the article
https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

#WalledGardens #Instagram #RewildTheInternet

Drohen Google und Apple Zerschlagungen?
Die Tech-Riesen Google und Apple stehen möglicherweise vor der größten Herausforderung seit Jahrzehnten. Wie Reuters berichtete, könnten ihnen aufgrund von Vorwürfen gegen wettbewerbsfeindliche Prak
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/drohen-google-und-apple-zerschlagungen/
#News #Tellerrand #Google #EU #BigTech #USJustizministerium #Wettbewerbsbehrden #MonopolistischesVerhalten #WalledGardens #DigitaleMrkteGesetz #Zerschlagungsanordnungen #Apple

@Frieren @protonmail @Tutanota I think it is important that @Tutanota and @protonmail are working together to build an #encryption #standard for #Email

For now #Tutanota and #ProtonMail are #walledgardens

#Autocrypt #GPG #Security #walledgarden #Privacy

https://github.com/tutao/tutanota/issues/198
https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients/issues/120
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/88gqiw/any_plans_to_support_autocrypt/

Congratulations to Historic Houses Garden of the Year 2023 - Glenarm Castle Walled Garden in Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland.

#gardening #gardens #bloomscrolling #walledgardens #NorthernIreland #CountyAntrim #fruittrees #herbaceous #flowers

https://www.mandycanudigit.com/2023/11/15/garden-of-the-year-award-2023-glenarm-castle-walled-garden/

“I feel like if you have to log in to see a page, that page is no longer really on ‘the Web.’” — Omar Rizwan

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#Business #Internet #Web #Website #Webpage #Business #WalledGardens #PayWalls #Account #Login #SignIn #Quote

@film_girl @thomholwerda Small is not the goal. It’s a side-effect of ethical infra free from #technoFeudalists. The side-effect can only be lessened by getting more ppl to prioritize the community over techno feudalism’s giant #walledGardens.

The masses will always be unethical. Poaching bits of the beast is our best move.

(pic below swiped from @riley¹)
① https://freeradical.zone/@riley@social.audiovalentine.com/110352758495629075

... think about the purpose the utopian hallucinations about AI are serving. What work are these benevolent stories doing in the culture as we encounter these strange new tools? Here is one hypothesis: they are the powerful and enticing cover stories for what may turn out to be the largest and most consequential theft in human history. Because what we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history ( #Microsoft, #Apple, #Google, #Meta, #Amazon …) unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside proprietary products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent.
This should not be legal...

soo can we get the #ButlerianJihad going already or what? i'd like to make plans for the summer...

#openai #SurveillanceCapitalism #bullshiteering #GAFAMN #StableDiffusion #DeepFakes #Techbro #Solutionism #CryptoCoins #web3 #WalledGardens #miltech #dronewars #Cloud #EveryThingAsAService #BullshitJobs #ServiceClass #LateStageCapitalism #SocialCreditSystem #SiliconDystopia #dune #FrankHerbert

The classic #trilemma goes: "Fast, cheap or good, pick any two." The Moderator's Trilemma goes, "Large, diverse #userbase; centralized #platforms; don't anger #users—pick any two."
Rozenshtein proposes a solution to the Moderator's Trilemma: federation. De-siloing #socialmedia, breaking it out of centralized #walledgardens and recomposing it as a bunch of small servers run by a diversity of operators with a diversity of content moderation approaches.
[or]
The #fediverse!
https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/04/pick-all-three/

@RDBinns "(then) richest guy in the world." *cackles* #schadenfreude

Commentary aside: if you don't mind me shouting this out, LMK if you do and I'll delete.

#Mastodon
#MastodonServer
#MastodonFuture
#Fediverse
#WalledGardens

Project Liberty – the plan to replace Facebook by using blockchain to construct a new internet infrastructure called the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol https://squeet.me/objects/962c3e10d2f0cf88c9fd2f4da16477e30893b1f6

@Hamishcampbell
Pick your machine that will work for you.

The #extremelyWealthy have picked killerDrones and have average people training them courtesy of #hCaptcha. They worship #theBeautyOfTheirWeapons.

People have used machines for hundreds of years. We need to decide what technology is for us and what is for them…

And we better not take too long about it.

Our choices are #AI and #walledGardens that enslave us, or #bitcoin and #libreSoftware to empower us.

@bob @aral @actualsteerpike

@fuxoft
Those services are designed to create #extremists. They can only produce an extremist in a silo, which is why they tend to silo themselves.

#CIA #astroturfMovements #gab #parler #chanBoards #Christchurch #Cloudflare #aws #amazon #walledGardens #prisons

#Paywalled/Adwalled links are surprisingly common in the #Fediverse.

Content that's not accessible without conditions is not part of the open web.

How should we deal with this? A bot that replies with an unblocked link? cw?

#WalledGardens #CAPTCHA #AdBlockBlock #GeoBlock