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Open source Substack rival Ghost may join the fediverse | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I consider wordpress open core at best these days.

A lot of really basic features like lightboxes that should be in core are in their "jetpack" SaaS plugin. This by default sends automattic a whole bunch of telemetry, which I assume they are now selling to OpenAI, and puts ads in your dashboard for other commercial SaaS features.

There's also the fact that they don't allow forks of open source plugins in their plugin repository.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That's really good to know, thanks, I'd assumed they were a shitty blob company until I heard they were adding federation, but I guess that intuition was correct. Sounds almost Threads-tier.