<p>This community collects stories, cases and situations where people are <em>forced</em> 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 <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/yanis-varoufakis-technofeudalism-interview/" rel="nofollow">technofeudal system</a> that is subservient to lords (Microsoft, Cloudflare, Google, etc).</p>
<p>Well-known walled gardens include (but are not limited to):</p>
<ul>
<li>Cloudflare</li>
<li>Microsoft LinkedIn</li>
<li>Microsoft Github¹</li>
<li>Facebook</li>
<li>Twitter</li>
<li>Paypal</li>
<li>Google</li>
<li>Amazon</li>
<li>iOS</li>
</ul>
<p>(note I do not say X or Meta above because I do not recognize or promote obnoxious and detrimental trademarks)</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Somewhat related communities:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/email_required" rel="nofollow">!email_required@lemmy.sdf.org</a></li>
<li><a href="https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/smartphone_required" rel="nofollow">!smartphone_required@lemmy.sdf.org</a></li>
<li><a href="https://sopuli.xyz/c/netneutrality" rel="nofollow">!netneutrality@sopuli.xyz</a></li>
<li><a href="https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/degoogle" rel="nofollow">!degoogle@discuss.tchncs.de</a></li>
<li><a href="https://sopuli.xyz/c/right_to_unplug" rel="nofollow">!right_to_unplug@sopuli.xyz</a></li>
</ul>