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Maxi 10x 💉

@MichaelBishop @sass Don’t make yourself more problems than necessary. As long as you self-host, you will be fine with WP. Before you switch to another blog, let the situation develop further.

3 March at 2:53 | Wall-to-wall | Open on chaos.social
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just_one_bear

@frumble @MichaelBishop @sass Indeed! From my understanding, WP (the code) is separate from WP (the hosting company owned by Automattic) and is thus Still OK. I use neither but the details are bubbling up about it so it seems fine to be making no sudden moves.

3 March at 4:51 | Open on mastodon.social
Fazal Majid

@just_one_bear @frumble @MichaelBishop @sass nope, if you have the Jetpack plugin installed (e.g. for Akismet comment spam protection, your content is still uploaded to Automattic and sold to AI companies, according to Derek Powazek.

mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler/

Some of this may be misunderstandings due to Automattic being tight-lipped, but the Intelligence Community has an adage that you gauge an adversary’s capabilities, not their intentions, and Wordpress must now be classified as adversarial or untrusted software.

I’m happy I switched to Hugo 6 years ago.

@just_one_bear @frumble @MichaelBishop @sass nope, if you have the Jetpack plugin installed (e.g. for Akismet comment spam protection, your content is still uploaded to Automattic and sold to AI companies, according to Derek Powazek.

mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler/

Some of this may be misunderstandings due to Automattic being tight-lipped, but the Intelligence Community has an adage that you gauge an adversary’s capabilities, not their intentions, and Wordpress must now be...

3 March at 9:03 | Open on social.vivaldi.net
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