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by RamblingCTO 6 days ago
While codeberg can do as they please, I'm worried about the walled gardens we're creating all over the place. Be it non-exclusive open source projects (hi gitea) because it's a meeting point for a subset of extremist politics or services like this (not even talking about x, fediverse, etc. etc.). The open and free web seems dead, it's fragmented into oblivion. I always valued the weird and random exchange of ideas that challenge my own worldviews.
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Was it less fragmented when everyone had their own website?
Even then you had IRC, BB etc.
Each group had their own ones. IRC started with one big network but was fragmented by channel. BBs were always very decentralised.
I know, that's not what I'm arguing. Fragmented != walled garden