"Remember how he started off with “I’ve never been anything but nice to you, and we worked together for years.” Ladies… does this sound familiar? IYKYK."

[antijingoist@hackers.town]

"Remember how he started off with “I’ve never been anything but nice to you, and we worked together for years.” Ladies… does this sound familiar? IYKYK."

Just a moment...

(medium.com)

[onepict@chaos.social]

@antijingoist the whole situation is controlling as fuck.

Like he owns the Wordpress org domain, the foundation doesn't. Also he pretty much runs the foundation.

All the

[http_error_418@hachyderm.io]

@onepict @antijingoist at this point I am wondering what exactly the wordpress foundation actually does that's of value

Like, does it provide any clear benefit to the wordpress project or is it just reputation laundering

[antijingoist@hackers.town]

@http_error_418 @onepict free unpaid employees for Automattic?

[onepict@chaos.social]

@http_error_418 @antijingoist Well it's not worth it in that regard now is it.

This reminds me of the Robert Caro quite about power.

"Power reveals"

Matt's showing us who he always was.

[onepict@chaos.social]

@http_error_418 @antijingoist Full quote

As Robert Caro wrote:

"We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do."

[onepict@chaos.social]

@http_error_418 @antijingoist The global ecosystem is bad enough with wordpress, do we really want yet another power grabbing Silicon Valley CEO having that much influence in the Fediverse? It's bad enough with Threads.

https://wordpress.com/blog/2024/09/30/social-web-foundation/

Consent and the fediverse

(www.onepict.com)