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Yep I guess the pull to be a walled garden is too great. Even Twitter, a product that should have been the true antithesis to walled garden pigeon holed themsel

• totony 5y ago
  >walled garden >links medium blog post which can only be accessed behind a login
  • Underphil 5y ago
    It didn't ask me for a login (?)
    • Utkarsh_Mood 5y ago
      depends on whether you've finished your free articles for the month
      • jen20 5y ago
        And whether you have an ad/tracker blocker.
        • Underphil 5y ago
          Ah, I sit corrected. I have the blockers and don't think I've ever used Medium before.
  • quaintdev 5y ago
    Free products sooner or later end up becoming walled gardens unless it is open source and self hosted.
    • ilikeatari 5y ago
      How about paid businesses models? Aren’t we ripe to start these now?
      • pjerem 5y ago
        By definition, paid products are walled gardens from the beginning.
  • gibspaulding 5y ago
    I'm not a huge fan of medium either, but I was able to scroll through the whole article without logging in. There's a prompt at the top, but nothing too obtrusive. I even tried with ublock origin off. What am I missing?
    • eyelidlessness 5y ago
      Medium is extremely inconsistent with their account-/pay-walling. I think it’s intentionally chaotic and confusing to drive signup/subscription rates that wouldn’t happen if they communicated clearly what limits you’ve actually encountered.
• scarface74 5y ago
  I wrote a blog post on Medium about wall gardens…
  • dylan604 5y ago
    shoot, i just replied with the same sentiment. then i saw your message.
  • egfx 5y ago
    To be fair (to myself and my feelings about walled gardens) I updated the post in 2018 but first I wrote it in 2012 when Medium was this cool new anti-wordpress blogging platform and it proves my point exactly.
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• dylan604 5y ago
  something strikes as peculiar/funny about discussions of walled gardens, but then blogging about it on medium.