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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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Matt Mullenweg has deactivated the accounts of several WordPress community members, including two with plans to fork WordPress.
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  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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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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      “But I’m just a narcissist, I’m what matters here. You must worship me, why don’t you? I’ll cut off your legs.”

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        He’s actually cutting off his own legs and soon he’ll be dancing on pegs.

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      When you want to build a cult of personality and accidentally build a flourishing diverse community lol

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    They weren’t even planning to create a fork.

    • Matt said his company was going to all but stop contributing to WordPress for now out of spite against WPEngine https://automattic.com/2025/01/09/aligning-automattics-sponsored-contributions-to-wordpress/

    • These people said “OK we’ll take responsibility for the next release within the current WordPress organization framework so that work can continue”

    • Matt said nuh-nuh, no you aren’t https://wordpress.org/news/2025/01/jkpress/

    Basically Matt interpreted their “we’re going to take over work within Wordpress since Matt abandoned it” as “we’re taking over Wordpress from Matt” and is telling them through some tortured rhetoric “you aren’t Wordpress, I’m Wordpress, you go do it in a fork instead”

  • 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.

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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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          Yeah fuck that guy.

    • pmc@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Hopefully he explodes with hammers and hammers go flying everywhere

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    So, someone else forks it and then the contributors just fork that one. This is dumb gate keeping when there are other gates readily available nearby.

    Pretty sure no one told this guy how FOSS is supposed to work or what licensing even means.

    Best case scenario here he’s basically asking for is that the open source community forks this to a new project, stops contributing at all to the official one and since he’s announced he will literally have one developer work on this (45hrs per week, down from 4000 supposedly), the new fork becomes the defacto standard and his company is left peddling old wares full of bugs and exploits no one wants.

  • Bobby Turkalino@lemmy.yachts
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    Speaks at Disrupt

    People try to disrupt his profit

    “No you can’t do that”

    • MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world
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      Who disrupts the disrupters?

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        Starfleet Intelligence

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    That’s not how open source is sposto work…

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    Sounds like a spoiled child

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      Trump’s disease is spreading.

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    Can someone remove this asshole?

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      It’s more likely that a fork becomes dominant, making him irrelevant. That’s almost the same thing.

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        That’s better, because he would have to live his life knowing he completely fucked himself.

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          Do you think he has enough self-awareness?

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            Hell no. Can’t wait to hear about his new Wordpress cryptocurrency launching soon

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          Well, other people would know that. He himself would know that it was “those people” that fucked him over, and not he himself.

      • Kokesh@lemmy.world
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        True!

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      Please don’t, this is the best entertainment I’ve had in months!

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    My dislike of Wordpress is being validated every day

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      Why are you hating on WordPress ?

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        See the article

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          But why WordPress itself

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            Bad impression of their development environment and business practices

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    I think he misunderstands the label/title “benevolent dictator for life” that can get assigned to people on some really popular open source projects.

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      Honestly, it’s kind of heartening how infrequently they forget the benevolent part.

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        Humans can’t do then benevolent part for very long.

        You can fake it for a bit, but by and large we’re just absolutely shit at not being assholes to each other once you get outside of your family tribe or maybe your local neighbors.

        (Also having a complete mental breakdown doesn’t help, and boy howdy.)

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    100% switching to whatever the fork ends up being.

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    just filing this away…

    … t… u… v… w… x… woops. back up.

    w.

    there we go.

    right before xfree86 in the file of forgotten projects that fucked-up big, and lost.

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      xfree86

      I’m about to look this up, I better not be disappointed with how they bombed their own project …

      Edit: that did not disappoint

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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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    If anyone wants to see it from the horses mouth:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=photomatt

    That’s him.

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      🕐👄

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      horse

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    As if people didn’t Clone Wordpress already, let’s call it BlogPrint

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