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

"'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties"

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/for-too-long-apple-has-operated-a-walled-garden-around-its-products-the-eu-forces-apple-to-open-its-closed-system-to-third-parties/

I'm perfectly okay with this. If you choose to live in a #WalledGarden, you have to expect that your experience is going to be sub-optimal when compared to the experiences of the outside world. If you think your experience is superior you're either naïve or delusional. #Apple #Pebble #SmartWatch

https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-awesome-with-iphones

The #EU takes a giant wrecking ball to #Apple's #WalledGarden and tears it down. Apple is being forced to open up it's entire ecosystem to rivals and competitors. (At least in the EU.)

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-ordered-by-eu-antitrust-regulators-open-up-rivals-2025-03-19/

#DigitalSovereignity: "The real power move for #creators is #ownership and control of their work and livelihoods. This freedom is actually closer for more people than ever before! Learn from two #fediverse futurists [@molly0xfff & @mike] how #decentralizedsocialmedia facilitates #betterpublishing, #community, and #businessmodels.
Speakers will cover where creators should focus their energies, and how they might thrive with or without #walledgarden social platforms."
https://schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/PP147154

Saw #DL4819 news break on FB, with stunning photos, but I couldn't share here because #walledgarden.

Now I see that #Reddit will be erecting a #paywall this year, which will vastly diminish the usefulness of many subreddits.

Alle, die #whatsapp verlassen und zu #Signal wechseln tun was gutes. Manche wechseln zu #threema. Manche zu beiden.

Fehler No. 1 schon gefunden? Signal ist wie Whatsapp in blau:
- man ist unter sich (#walledgarden, #Silo )

Außerdem:
- braucht man ein Smartphone und Zugang zu einer Telefonnummer, auf die ein Account registriert wird (eingeschränkte #Teilhabe),
- ist es ein zentraler Dienst
- der irgendwo(tm), _vermutlich_ hier mit überwiegend Atom, Kohle und Öl (?) betrieben wird: https://www.netify.ai/resources/applications/signal.
- also bei #Amazon #aws, #google und #microsoft.
- Aber: #bigtechmussweg und ich bevorzuge es, meinen Dienstleister aufgrund verschiedener Krieterien selbst wählen zu können. UND dabei alle meine Kontakte erreichen zu können, OHNE zig Apps installieren und Verträge schließen zu müssen.

Das sind ein paar Gründe, warum ich auf [matrix] setze.

https://element.io/de/matrix-in-deutschland
https://joinmatrix.org/

edit: SIM-Karte nicht erforderlich, kann auch eine andere Telefonnummer sein

#dachtedaswaerwichtig #joinmatrix
#klimawandel #digitaleselbstbestimmung

Hey #fediverse ! Please help support peeps leaving #facebook and other #walledgarden shitholes! I just stumbled across #flohmarkt , a fediverse facebook marketplace clone: one instance https://fedi.markets/

Please spread the word! #switchday

Fediverse
"The free and open community garden, that the big walled gardens block links to."

A prescient post from 2012 from @shanselman via @cory

“You are not blogging enough. You are pouring your words into increasingly closed and often walled gardens. You are giving control - and sometimes ownership - of your content to social media companies that will SURELY fail.”

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/your-words-are-wasted

I am deeply fascinated why some people think Bluesky is a "Walled garden" while Mastodon is supposedly not?

Is a social network not a walled garden if it's non-profit?

Isn't the point of all sites online that they are indeed walled gardens? No matter if it's Imgur, Discord, Reddit, the Order Of The Stick webforum or Mastodon?

"The blogosphere
could be a modern realisation of Jürgen Habermas’s idea of “the public sphere” because it was open to all, everything was discussable and social rank didn’t determine who was allowed to speak. But..the speed and comprehensiveness that tech corporations such as Google and Facebook would enclose that public sphere with their own walled gardens in which “free speech” could be algorithmically curated while the speakers were intensively surveilled and their data mined for advertising purposes."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/05/the-blogosphere-is-in-full-bloom-the-rest-of-the-internet-has-wilted-dave-winer
#blogosphere #SocialMedia #WalledGarden #fiefdom #PublicSphere #Agora #writing #CounterPublics #SocietalDebates #Commons #OpenSource

Today, Drum Castle, Drumoak #walking #drumcastle #drumcastlegardenandestate #drumoak #walledgarden #nts #aberdeenshire #walkingaberdeenshire

Damn, what a comment about the Apple Vision Pro. It literally shows you only their products in their reality.

Apps can now block #sideloading more easily and force downloads through #GooglePlay
#Google Play Integrity API makes it easy for apps to detect when they weren’t installed from the Google #PlayStore. https://www.androidauthority.com/play-integrity-sideloading-detection-3480639/
argh.....
I am on #Android as I don't want a #WalledGarden
I use Google Play, and #FDroid, and #Obtainium
I don't want #Surveillance of all my apps, I want #Privacy and access to #OpenSource