![]()
Digital Fiefdom (aka walled-garden) Required 🏰
- Name
- digi_fiefdom_required
- Description
- This community collects stories, cases and situations where people are *forced* into digital colonialism via 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 [technofeudal system](https://www.wired.com/story/yanis-varoufakis-technofeudalism-interview/) that is subservient to lords (Microsoft, Cloudflare, Google, etc). Well-known walled gardens include (but are not limited to): * Cloudflare * Microsoft LinkedIn * Microsoft Github¹ * Facebook * Twitter * Paypal * Google * Amazon * iOS (note I do not say X or Meta above because I do not recognize or promote obnoxious and detrimental trademarks) 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. Somewhat related communities: * [!email_required@lemmy.sdf.org](https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/email_required) * [!smartphone_required@lemmy.sdf.org](https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/smartphone_required) * [!netneutrality@sopuli.xyz](https://sopuli.xyz/c/netneutrality) * [!degoogle@discuss.tchncs.de](https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/degoogle) * [!right_to_unplug@sopuli.xyz](https://sopuli.xyz/c/right_to_unplug)
- Community Url
- https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/digi_fiefdom_required
- Subscribers
- 121
- Posts
- 7
- Daily Active Users
- 1
- Weekly Active Users
- 1
- Monthly Active Users
- 1
- 6 Month Active Users
- 1
- removed
- published
- 5/01/2025 11:07:13 AM
- updated
- 20/09/2025 2:48:28 PM
- deleted
- nsfw
- hidden
- Mods only