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My experiences with Automattic: Part 3
This one has taken a while to iron out. I wanted the third post in the series to focus more on the WordPress community and how it has been made to depend on Matt’s leadership at Automattic’s infrastructure.
In addition, Matt’s ludicrous demands towards WP Engine are about money being provided to a for-profit enterprise for using trademarks owned by a non-profit entity, so this is now way beyond the usual “techbro throws tantrums and causes drama” things we’ve seen in the past. Besides the bikeshedding involved (which is normal in a large and important project like this but could be managed better), tickets and patches can take years to get through the discussion and decision process if they aren’t kicked off the table for any reason such as not aligning with Automattic’s (or Matt’s own) plans for that quarter. Now the CMS that runs the majority of the World Wide Web, which is in turn dependent on a social media company that retains pictures of dead children, rolled backs its specific ban on deadnaming trans people and forced millions of users into sharing their data with OpenAI needs to come under public scrutiny at some point.
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