My strange experiences with Automattic: Part 3 – aldavigdis.dev
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.
This post is best read while listening to Know Your Enemy by Rage Against the Machine. (There’s a jazzy cover if you are so inclined.)
This post will include vague references to events and facts but as this is an opinion piece and not an academic paper, I am not here to use a search engine or find things on the Internet Archive for you.
As the community side of things has been shaken with quite serious and course-changing events since I started writing this series of posts, with things dating even further back — most of which would not have happened if it wasn’t for Matt’s lack of leadership — and his main goals being about sinking his claws into the ins-and-outs of the economy around what has become the default general-purpose CMS of the web and his name being plastered around as much as possible.
The most recent move is the current attempt at forcing a large hosting company in the WordPress space to pay Automattic a large sum of money for using the WordPress logo and wordmark despite them being owned by the WordPress Foundation.
