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chobeat@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork

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Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork

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chobeat@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago
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  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    remember when matt publically attacked a trans woman on twitter because she called him out about his transphobia

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      I do not, source?

      Not that I don’t believe you, but if we’re gonna hate on this guy even more, we should make sure it’s for facts.

      • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/22/tumblr-ceo-publicly-spars-with-trans-user-over-account-ban-revealing-private-account-names-in-the-process/

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    This is what happens when you feel ownership over a community.

    He thinks “I built this community” and to an extent he’s correct, but as with the nature of communities, it doesn’t matter if he helped build it, the community is by definition made up of the people of the community… not just the guy who spearheaded things way back in the day. Especially something like an open source project, if he wanted this level of control he should have kept it closed source.

    If you think you own your community, you’re in for a bad time.

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    Wonder how pissy he’s gonna be when the project is forked and everyone leaves the original.

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      159 have left since Matt’s cheese slide off his cracker

      https://slashdot.org/story/24/10/04/1355253/159-employees-leave-automattic-as-wordpress-ceo-escalates-fight-with-wp-engine

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    I don’t get the logic of cutting off contributions of any kind unless they were actively sabotaging the projector something. Seems like that just makes the fork basically a guarantee. And in open source, a fork that discourages community is always going to be at a disadvantage.

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    My dislike of Wordpress is being validated every day

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