Links to exclusive walled-gardens pollute fedi nodes without restraint. What’s the fix?
Links to exclusive walled-gardens pollute fedi nodes without restraint. What’s the fix?
Discuss. (But plz, it’s only interesting to hear from folks who have some healthy degree of contempt for exclusive corporate walled-gardens and the technofeudal system the fedi is designed to escape.)
And note that links can come into existence that are openly universally accessible and then later become part of a walled-garden... and then later be open again. For example, youtube. And a website can become jailed in Cloudflare but then be open again at the flip of a switch. So a good solution would be a toggle of sorts.
maybe instead of linking, just copy the content here. The link can still be there in addition to that. If its not pasteable then i dont know.
1It’s a decent approach but incomplete. Couple problems:
- Lemmy would not host youtube videos. YT transcripts could (and should) be part of the post, but then there is the same problem as the next bullet:
- w.r.t text content, some people (very few people) indeed copy the content. It’s failing because people are lazy. Too lazy to check whether the link is in a walled garden; too lazy to warn people of the walled garden; also too lazy to copy the text. Sometimes it’s more naivety than lazy, but same problem: you are relying on the masses to make individual decisions that are wise, inclusive, and higher effort.
A good system is designed with the assumption that users are lazy. As such, Lemmy is poorly designed.
1 lazy author can inconvenience thousands of readers. Lammy’s design fails to address that.
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There is no fix. No one is entitled to any and all content.
Maybe piracy? 😅
-1You’ve misunderstood the problem. It’s not a fix to access content that’s needed. The question is how to fix the pollution: exclusive walled-garden links appearing outside of the walled garden (where not everyone has access or is part of the special club of Google/Facebook/Cloudflare patrons). How did you misunderstand when I mentioned a toggle? And the title... how could I make the title more clear?
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