The company behind #Wordpress, #Automattic, is getting increasingly aligned.

The employee base now consist of "Mullenweg’s strongest supporters, and people who couldn’t afford to risk leaving their jobs", neither of which will contradict #Mullenweg.

Apparently recently, Automattic has been adding watermarking to the background in internal communications systems. The result will be that those afraid of leaving will be even more compliant. What a work culture.
https://www.404media.co/automattic-wordpress-p2-watermark-leakers/

Automattic Transparency Report 2024

covering government requests, DMCA copyright takedown requests, GDPR, and more, to WordPress.com and Tumblr for the period July-December 2024.

https://transparency.automattic.com/2025/04/14/transparency-report-update-july-december-2024/

Full report:
https://transparency.automattic.com/

"I know that losing your job was hard," my 8-year-old said to me this evening, "So you can borrow this." He handed me his newest soft toy.

"It'll help you feel better when you're sad. Keep him for the week."

#note #work #automattic #job #employment #cute #children #parenting

Via: https://danq.me/2025/04/08/26282/

Gen Z Leading Tumblr Revival #tumblr #automattic #socialmedia https://www.luisquintanilla.me/feed/gen-z-tumblr-revival?utm_medium=feed

Automattic's Big Bet: Layoffs Amid Growth Signal a Shift in Strategy https://tinyurl.com/mr2a33dy

The biggest surprise to me about the current #Automattic layoffs isn't the scale of it or that they're discriminating against those that were older than 40 — it's that there was a QA team.

#WordPress #Automattic #layoffs

'Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, and a range of other online services, is reducing its workforce. The layoffs will impact 16% of staff across divisions, an Automattic blog post published Wednesday reveals.'

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/wordpress-maker-automattic-lays-off-16-of-staff/

Apparently Automattic are laying off around one in six of their workforce. And I'm one of the unlucky ones.

Anybody remote hiring for a UK-based full-stack web developer (in a world that doesn't seem to believe that full-stack developers exist anymore) with 25+ years professional experience, specialising in PHP, Ruby, JS, HTML, CSS, devops, and about 50% of CMSes you've ever heard of (and probably some you haven't)... with a flair for security, accessibility, standards-compliance, performance, and DexEx?

CV at: https://danq.me/cv/index.html

#note #work #automattic #job #memorable #employment

Via: https://danq.me/2025/04/02/redundant/

Blogtastisch - 2. Blogs und das Fediverse

https://clip.place/w/7fCHrsXWiEWzXP2eSyQohp

Pocket Casts: Web-, Mac- und Windows-Apps jetzt kostenlos zugänglich
Pocket Casts, eine der bekanntesten Plattformen für das Hören und Verwalten von Podcasts, bietet ab sofort seine Web-, Mac- und Windows-Apps für alle Nutzer kostenlos an. Diese Entscheidung
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/pocket-casts-web-mac-und-windows-apps-jetzt-kostenlos-zugaenglich/
#News #Services #Automattic #MacApp #OpenRSSPodcasting #PocketCasts #PocketCastsPlus #PodcastsKostenlos #WebPlayer #WindowsApp

Recent experience: #Automattic: refuses to remove #disinformation and fails to remove copyright violations despite DMCA reports. #Google: refuses to remove disinformation but claims it will disable or remove copyright infringements ‘soon’ (as of March 6) but has failed to do so to date.
I guess they only help big companies āe.

If this is true then only @wordpressdotcom would receive updates while the rest of the #WordPress community withers.

@photomatt Considers Delaying WordPress Releases Through 2027 https://www.searchenginejournal.com/mullenweg-considers-delaying-wordpress-releases-through-2027/541821/

I am not a lawyer or time traveler, but from Matt’s odd statements, it appears that #WPEngine may actually win their lawsuit against #Automattic.

Matt on the other hand is “cutting off his nose to spite his face” with these measures, which is baffling honestly.

Any ActivityPub/Wordpress wizards out there? When I post a blog to AP and people like or boost it on Mastodon and other places, I need to manually accept those interactions from the Wordpress interface. I can understand comments need to be accepted to avoid spam on the blog. But what's the purpose of the other stuff? #Wordpress #ActivityPub #Automattic

That’s now two pages reported to #Automattic for DMCA violations. Since they failed to act on the first, I doubt they will suddenly grow a backbone for the second. But it’s a US tech firm, so obviously you can’t trust them to honour their own terms and processes.

Late last year, #Automattic refused to remove a #disinformation post about me. I have filed a very routine DMCA complaint about a very obvious violation hosted by them. This has also been ignored.

Tumblr has financially backed Tapestry, an app launched earlier this month designed to let you organize feeds across the Fediverse, Bluesky, Tumblr, etc. #SocialMedia #Automattic #Tumblr #Bluesky #Fediverse #Mastodon #CreatorNews #SocialMediaNews

Tumblr backs Tapestry, a timel...

Automattic’s Beeper Unveils Redesigned Desktop and iOS Messaging Apps Post-Merger

#Automattic #Beeper #TextsCom #MessagingApps #TechNews #iOS

https://www.techi.com/automattic-beeper-redesigned-desktop-ios-apps-launch/

My WordPress powered website is now free of the Jetpack plugin.