this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had already been swirling that this would occur, but this just cements that they were correct
How exactly is WordPress going to do that? Its literally FOSS Software…
I guess they’re talking about wordpress.com which is a commercial product, and not wordpress.org which is the foss software.
Fuxake! Now I’ve gotta move my blog?
Your choice. Rememnber to read the TOS of the new place before you do… or self-host and just make sure to keep it secured and comply with data protection legislations. 🤷
Correct, AFAIU.
Ah ok its the .com forgot that existed.
A whole load of features that should be in the (foss) wordpress core are in the proprietary SaaS plugin called jetpack which is run by wordpress.com. This includes invasive telemetry which they deliberately make hard to disable.