I've been thinking quite a lot about why @photomatt's actions in and around Wordpress and @automattic have bothered me so and it all came together this past week. I was writing about it and then the news of FAIR broke - and bam. #wpdrama #wordpress #wpterrorism.

#mullenwegwho?.

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Read up on the FAIR project and package manager for #wordpress:. Podcast if you prefer:

Many have called for Mullenweg to step down or be removed from the project. That's not going to happen. In what may be the longest con in open source history we've all learned he controls it all. Making him *irrelevant* to the project is the next best thing. #wpdrama #wpterrorism.

Bombshell news out of the @altctrlorg event alongside #WCEU: FAIR (Federated and Independent Repositories) introduces a #wordpress package manager in an aim to fully decentralize & futureproof WP by insulating the ecosystem from the anti-competitive whims of @photomatt .Backed by.

And how many of the ~280 employees that were laid off have different feelings about what they said in that survey? I know a few. #wpdrama #wordpressterrorism #isitacult @Newsweek really needs to have higher standards.

It's truly astonishing how far @photomatt will go to paint himself as the victim and claim the moral high ground. Using the death of #PopeFrancis seems a weird flex. #wpdrama #wordpressterrorism.

Also. math is hard.

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TIL That Automattic P2 has a neat new feature! Last year they added nearly invisible watermarks which are unique to each employee. Cool, cool, cool. Other collaboration platforms have it. But. they didn't announce it. For a place where communication = oxygen they've become

@photomatt

While @photomatt is busy trying to spin that these ~280 lost jobs today because of performance issues. I can tell you that's absolutely true. **His performance/incompetence** The # of brilliant, hard working, and talented people who were kicked to the curb today is staggering.

Leaving this account active because of all the #wpdrama #wordpressterrorism and general @photomatt asshattery. But if you want my attention you'll need to find/message/get my attention elsewhere.

Let me take your metaphor for a spin. You found an abandoned plot of land (cafelog/b2) and you cleared the weeds and you got grants and a loan to run some electric and plumbing to the land. You invited others to pitch tents, plant flowers, fruits, and vegetables, graze.

"And maybe listen to the person that did it. " . Cool. cool. cool. cool. Where is she? Cause Wordpress did not outpace anything without the plugins, themes and contributions created by countless others. You gave us Hello Dolly. Give me a break. #wpdrama #wordpressterrorism.

Cause: ew.

Wait. is this the same Matt Mullenweg that hasn't made a commit since. checks calendar. 2013? Oh wait, that's just text, so 2009? Weird. Sorry, I meant sad. Whatevs. #wpdrama #wordpressterrorism

Hmmm.

Imagine @photomatt what you could have done if you actually did that all along instead of micromanaging every little thing? You will never be a fraction of the leader that @heatherjbrunner is though. You just don't have it in you. #WPdrama.

@wpengine And what is truly sad. is that if this is all REALLY about getting other companies to contribute more he could have done it this way to begin with. He would have had community support to do it. Instead he has lost face, support, business, and hopefully a multi-million dollar.