• schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
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    12 days ago

    100% this: the sole owner of the foundation, trademark, and primary web portal has come across as absolutely unhinged, vengeful, and petty as all hell.

    If I had any wordpress sites that I relied on professionally/ran a business on/made money with I’d be SERIOUSLY investigating any option that didn’t involve wordpress since the last thing I want is my business on software beholden to someone who is perfectly willing to be visibly nuts online.

    Not a good thing for stability in general, you know?

    • Alphane Moon@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      I was honestly surprised how unstable the Automattic CEO sounded. He is literally sabotaging his own company/product/project.

      It’s a public mental implosion.

    • limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      12 days ago

      I think this is like a parallel situation as seen in the Reddit ceo driving migration to lemmy.

      The wp meltdown was destructive and healthy at the same time. A minority of wp users will look into alternatives, which will help make those better to use because the devs get more support, and/or the alternative communities and ecosystems start to grow