Adam DallianceJun 30, 2023

Imagine if you started a blog somewhere and were posting to it for years, gathering an audience, expressing your ideas.

And then one day the service provider just locked your blog behind a login-wall, removing your blog from the digital commons and enclosing is as part of their digital capital.

That'd really suck wouldn't it?

#twitter

Show threadAdam DallianceJun 30, 2023
I didn't think they'd raise the walls on *my* garden, sobs the woman who registered at the walled-garden website.
Show threadAdam DallianceJun 30, 2023

Today
* Reddit ends free API access.
* Twitter turns off anonymous reading.
* Youtube is talking about banning ad-blocking users.

The tech industry was living on cheep money and low interest rates, and now they're all afraid to let their precious content get used for AI training.

The walls are going up, the lawful corporate web is collapsing in on itself.

quexoticJul 2, 2023
Show threadAdam Dalliance
About time that the internet started seeing corporate ownership as damage and routing around it.
Jul 1, 2023 at 10:25amWeb
Show threadRaphaelJul 1, 2023
@pre yeah, seems like a trend right now. Let’s hope lasting change is really coming from this… I’m skeptical because these corporations are very good at luring people in. For all we know there may be new ones emerging as we speak.
Show threadMichał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Jul 1, 2023

@pre made that point in November:
https://vsquare.org/will-we-learn-from-twitters-collapse/

And no, I don't think we will actually learn from this. Sigh.

Show threadHot CalcJul 1, 2023
@pre hell yeah bro