How's everyone feeling about Matt Mullenweg/Wordpress right now?

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it looks like many ppl are taking issue with the new foundation trying to equate social web with only activitypub ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i think ap is interesting but i agree with a lot of the points made in these blogs about inclusivity and decentralization on the web

"ActivityPub partisans want the protocol and social media timelines to eat the web."

i think that if this is the goal of ap, it's kind of backwards (⌒_⌒;) 

https://deadsuperhero.com/2024/09/swf-icky-feeling/
https://bix.blog/posts/holy-hell-the-social-web-did-not-begin-in-2008

i don't really follow wp stuff very closely so i only have a vague idea of what's going on. it's kind of weird how the situation mirrors in a lot of ways what's going on in the social web foundation blowback happening at the same time with evan prodromou/activitypub re: open source and decentralization

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i don't really follow wp stuff very closely so i only have a vague idea of what's going on. it's kind of weird how the situation mirrors in a lot of ways what's going on in the social web foundation blowback happening at the same time with evan prodromou/activitypub re: open source and decentralization

https://warpcast.com/riotgoools/0xabe97e8d

I’ve never seen someone destroy their reputation so fast. Clearly there’s a conflict of interest here.

Losing situation for all sides if not fixed immediately – WordPress.org and WP Engine both lose users, and creators lose trust as their operations are needlessly hamstrung by the censorship of services ☹️

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