• @[email protected]
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      203 months ago

      Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I consider wordpress open core at best these days.

      A lot of really basic features like lightboxes that should be in core are in their “jetpack” SaaS plugin. This by default sends automattic a whole bunch of telemetry, which I assume they are now selling to OpenAI, and puts ads in your dashboard for other commercial SaaS features.

      There’s also the fact that they don’t allow forks of open source plugins in their plugin repository.

    • Steve
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      203 months ago

      One advantage over wordpress is that it avoids bringing its parent company, Automatic, into the Fediverse.

      From Wikipedia:

      In February 2024, Automattic announced that it would begin selling user data from Tumblr and WordPress to Midjourney and OpenAI.