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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 themselves into walled garden state. I wrote a blog post about it a long time ago https://medium.com/@shareU/we-built-this-city-2cb97437942f

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>walled garden

>links medium blog post which can only be accessed behind a login

It didn't ask me for a login (?)

depends on whether you've finished your free articles for the month

And whether you have an ad/tracker blocker.

Ah, I sit corrected. I have the blockers and don't think I've ever used Medium before.

Free products sooner or later end up becoming walled gardens unless it is open source and self hosted.

How about paid businesses models? Aren’t we ripe to start these now?

By definition, paid products are walled gardens from the beginning.

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?

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.

I wrote a blog post on Medium about wall gardens…

shoot, i just replied with the same sentiment. then i saw your message.

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.

something strikes as peculiar/funny about discussions of walled gardens, but then blogging about it on medium.

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