Search
Items tagged with: WordPress
offf, this story about how Google made google search into a pile of seagull shit hits me hard:
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Around the time of this story, I was living through a similar situation in my work life (on a much smaller scope, of course, WordPress.com first, Tumblr later).
Back in 2019, working on WordPress, I started finding myself, almost weekly, arguing against people who wanted to take the product we were working at and made it worse if that mean they could squeeze 0.1% more revenue from it
The 0.1% figure is not even a random number: I remember this speciffic A/B test on WordPress.com that was declared a success and shipped to 100% of the users because it increased the free-to-paid conversion by 0.1%. Soon after it was released, I found out that as a side effect, it increased the churn of free users by 20 something %,so I called for an urgent rollback and removal of the change. So I was promptly explained that we didn't care about free-users churn, because finance had calculated the average long-term value of the free users to be something like $2 per year, and the increase in conversion was bigger than what we could get from them.
Everything became about growth hacking. Everything became thinly-veiled dark patterns. In our private dev slack channels, we joked that since it was impossible to make it smaller or less conspicuous, the next thing the growth team was going to ask us to do was to make the 'free plan' button flee away from the mouse pointer when the user tried to click it. We kept making our product worse, we kept consciously crippling the cheaper versions so we could force people to move to the more expensive options.
Back then I was the lead of one of the two dev divisions working on WordPress.com, so my job was mainly to discuss what we were going to be doing, when and how. And I was getting drained by a constant state of fight against a constant wave of shit they wanted us to build. So much than by the end of 2020, the CEO quietly told me to follow the growth team plans and shut up or step down.
So I requested to move to tumblr, because I thought the pastures were greener over there. But it was all the same: Adding login walls to what we were pretending to be "the last bastion of the free internet", cramping in embarrasingly obvious money-making schemes disguised as features, and making them silently opt-out instead of opt-in so the less people the possible would deactivate them, having to fend off the pressure from the CEO to make everything algorithmic timelines because, you know, tiktok makes a lot of money and why aren't we, etc etc.
I found myself in a place where building something good that people enjoy using was no longer a priority, but tricking people into generating more money for the company was. And when I looked around me, I could see that happening everywhere else, not only in my company. Experiencing the start of the enshittification years from inside wasn't easy.
And, as in the article, the people who decided to turn the shit-metter up to 200%, have a name, in every case. And these people, no matter if they are called Sundar and Prabhakar or Matt and Mark, are destroying the internet. These people are milllionaires, or billionaries, and are destroying our shared, common spaces to squeeze some extra cash from us.
That's why the fediverse and its principles are important. Because that's how we take back internet from their dirty hands. That's how we make internet resilient against them. That's how we build the commons.
The Man Who Killed Google Search
This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it. The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google’s head of search, had a problem.Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
We released version 2.3.0 of the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress.
Some new features:
* Support for alt-attributes
* Prioritize attachments based on the post format (article => all, audio => audio, video => video, ...)
* Improve JS widgets
* A better default content handling based on the Object Type
* You can now add/remove the capability to use ActivityPub for each User
Full changelog: https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#230---2024-04-16
Download: https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/releases/tag/2.3.0
wordpress-activitypub/CHANGELOG.md at master · Automattic/wordpress-activitypub
ActivityPub for WordPress. Contribute to Automattic/wordpress-activitypub development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
If they want to fork #Owncast, they legally can, but they should not call it Owncast anymore. I know #Mastodon & #WordPress are open source as well, but they vigorously protect their trademarks to prevent this type of confusion.
If possible, I would encourage them to rename their fork something else. If they refuse, let us know which company it is so we can avoid doing business with them.
Thanks for replying. As far as using tax payer funds to support #Matrix, I know that there would be massive resistance to this idea in the #UnitedStates 🇺🇸 (using taxes to fund anything long term is always controversial, regardless of the reason).
I do believe managed hosting would be a better option to support your foundation, which is a path that #WordPress, #WriteFreely & #Minds are using.
Tay gently pushed the plastic door of the printer shut with an edifying "click".
Servicing Dark Printers had been illegal for years now. They enjoyed the seditious thrill.
---
It had started as a subscription grab after the printer companies tried hobbling third party toner cartridges.
"Subscribe for a monthly fee and you'll never run out of toner again."
"Let us monitor your printer so you don't have to."
People saw it for what it was - vendor lock in - but they had no choice really, not after all the printer companies started doing it.
Then came generative AI.
Everyone wanted to scrape every word ever written on the internet, tokenize it and feed it to an #LLM. #Reddit sold out, then #Tumblr, even open source darling #WordPress - selling out their user base for filthy token lucre.
So people started hiding their words, their art, their thoughts, their expression, not behind disrespected robots.txt, but through obscurity.
Rejecting Website Boy's "fewer algorithmic fanfares", they forked into the Dark Fedi.
Unscrapeable, unscrutable, ungovernable.
---
But people had forgotten about the printers.
The printers had to be connected 24/7, for "monitoring".
But you could tokenize postscript as easily as HTML.
And so every time a document was sent to a printer, it was harvested for tokens. Even secure documents. Documents not online.
---
Tay shut the metal door behind them, Dark Printer cossetted safely in its Faraday cage, and shuffled the hot stack of A4 paper it had borne.
It was a children's story, about how words were sacred, and special, and how you had to earn the right to use them.
---
* Facebook has AI.
* Google has AI.
* Microsoft has AI.
* Reddit has AI.
* Tumblr has AI.
* WordPress services on their DOT Com has AI.
In 2024, you must assume, any service you cannot download and install yourself, will have AI and will use whatever you write to train an AI.
Do you have a blog at Wordpress.com? Congrats! You will soon be feeding all your content to an AI, unless you opt-out. Same with Tumblr! (Why I self-host, reason #4711) Source: https://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/ and many more
UPDATE: Seems it already happened. Content from 2014-2023 has already been shared. So your opt-out will just be honoured going forward. If and how already sent content will be handled by the receiving 3rd party after you opt-out remains a mystery
#WordPress #Tumblr #AI #MidJourney
Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools
Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show that Tumblr staff compiled users' data as part of a deal with Midjourney and OpenAI.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
Some important context as this news breaks:
#WordPress is an open-source project, available at WordPress.org.
One of its co-founders, Matt Mullenweg, is CEO of #Automattic, which runs WordPress.com and owns #Tumblr.
They can’t sell what they don’t have, so “WordPress” here refers to WordPress.com, *not* self-hosted WordPress instances.
BUT many self-hosted instances use the Jetpack plugin, which does send data to WordPress.com, so that might be sold 🤬
https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/112004850884204466
NEW: Tumblr and Wordpress are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to internal documentation we've reviewedhttps://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/
Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools
Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show that Tumblr staff compiled users' data as part of a deal with Midjourney and OpenAI.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
With some very hard work from my amazing co-admin @beardedtechguy I am proud and happy to announce the new #AllThingsTech #Blog has been launched!
We have a new look, new layout and lots of plans for the near and far future.
You can check it out here: https://blog.allthingstech.social
You can also follow my personal blog account from there here on Mastodon via this account:
@cliffwade@blog.allthingstech.social
Danke für #FreeSoftware - mein Arbeits Alltag wäre nicht der gleiche ohne #OpenSource
Ganz besonders Dankbar bin ich für #LibreOffice, #Firefox, #Thunderbird, #Nextcloud, #Wordpress & #KDEnlive und so viele weitere Projekte wie #Signal
#SoftwareFreedom #ILoveFS #FLOSS
@fsfe https://mastodon.social/@fsfe/111928405423174259
Some shots from Day 2 of #FOSDEM. It has been great to be part of the Open Website Alliance
Breaking Barriers: Content Management Systems and Accessibility talk by Martin Helmich and Lukas Fritze.
and
Wrestling giants: How can free open source CMSes remain competitive with enterprise clients? by Owen Lansbury
Great to multiple CMS collaborating and sharing insights
#OpenWebsiteAlliance
#DrupalAssociation @drupalassoc
#CMS #OpenWeb #OpenWebAlliance
#Typo3 #WordPress #Joomla #Accessibility
Critical flaw found in WordPress plugin used on over 300,000 websites.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire blog: https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/critical-flaw-found-wordpress-plugin-used-over-300000-websites
#cybersecurity #wordpress #vulnerability
Critical flaw found in WordPress plugin used on over 300,000 websites
A WordPress plugin used on over 300,000 websites has been found to contain vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to seize control.www.tripwire.com
We just released version 2.0.0 of the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress (WordPress.com release is planned for tomorrow).
Main feature: Full bidirectional/threaded comment federation 🎉
Full Changelog: https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/releases/tag/2.0.0
Thanks #Automattic @mattwiebe @kanru @linos @mediaformat @mat @webrocker @sentynel and @janboddez for your contributions
https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
Release 2.0.0 · Automattic/wordpress-activitypub
What's Changed Normalize attributes that can have mixed value types by @pfefferle in #586 some phpcs fixes by @pfefferle in #590 WebFinger: Add support for URLs by @pfefferle in #594 Remove deprec...GitHub
You may have heard that WordPress is now federated with Mastodon. What does this all mean?
Well, very simply, people with WordPress blogs can now automatically publish their new posts to a Fediverse address where they are available to Mastodon.
Here's an explainer: https://mastodonmigration.wordpress.com/2023/11/07/understanding-mastodon-federation-wordpress-fediblogs/
As an example, if you follow this address: @mastodonmigration.wordpress.com
...you will see all new posts from https://mastodonmigration.wordpress.com/ in your feed.
Mastodon Migration Blog
Wordpress Blog - Sharing advice and assisting with the great migration.Mastodon Migration Blog
Integrujte WordPress nejen s Mastodonem
Tento týden společnost Automattic oznámila dostupnost pluginu ActivityPub na Wordpress.com. Tento plugin si ale můžete nainstalovat i do vlastní instance Wordpressu, udělat ze svého blogu součást sítě Fediverse a přímo komunikovat nejen s uživateli Mastodonu. Přečtěte si, jak na to.
#ActivityPub #blog #fediverse #Mastodon #sociálníSítě #wordpress
https://blog.eischmann.cz/2023/10/14/integrujte-wordpress-nejen-s-mastodonem/
Okay, big news for everyone with a WordPress blog, including people with a free blog on wordpress.com!
You can now turn *any* WordPress blog into a Fediverse server which can be followed from Mastodon etc.
I've updated the instructions on how to do this at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/wordpress-turning-your-blog-into-a-fediverse-server/
Just to repeat, this is now available to ALL WordPress blogs including free tier ones. The free tier has slightly different instructions, but effect is same.
(via https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/10/11/activitypub/)
Engage a Wider Audience With ActivityPub on WordPress.com
The fediverse has arrived at WordPress.com.Matthias Pfefferle (WordPress.com News)
WP to Twitter, WP Tweets Pro, and Twitter's new API policies - Joe Dolson Web Accessibility
As you may have already heard, Twitter has announced that they will cease support for free access to the Twitter API. The sole information published aboutJoe Dolson (Joe Dolson Web Accessibility)
Re-inventing the federated wheel because you don't know that wheels exist
And who want it to advance. To learn new abilities. To grow new features.
That's all fine and dandy.
But almost all of these people are still fully convinced that the Fediverse equals #Mastodon. And nothing else. At least not until Tumblr and P92 join the fray. Okay, maybe the #WordPress plug-in that's the talk of the town now that it has become official. Okay, maybe a few of them have also heard of #Pixelfed and/or #PeerTube because their makers are all over the Fediverse.
When these people are talking about the Fediverse, they mean Mastodon. And when they're thinking about the Fediverse, they're only thinking about Mastodon. Because that's all they know.
So these people want new cool features or even new cool use-cases in the Fediverse, stuff that Mastodon doesn't have. They want Mastodon to have it, or they want new projects to be launched that have these features.
If only they knew.
If only they knew that everything, literally everything they propose has already been done. Yes, in the Fediverse. In projects which are fully federated with Mastodon. Why don't they know? Because they've never heard of any of these projects, much less what they can do.
So they want "quote-tweets" in the Fediverse. Which means they want Mastodon to introduce them.
Tell you what: Mastodon is the only microblogging project in the Fediverse that doesn't have quotes. Not only will Eugen Rochko never introduce them, but all the other projects have them with Mastodon forks #GlitchSoc such as being the exception. #Pleroma has them. #Akkoma has them. #MissKey has them. #CalcKey has them. #FoundKey has them. #GoToSocial has them. The old heavyweights #Friendica and #Hubzilla have them, and so does Hubzilla's youngest decendant, the #Streams project. Et cetera.
You want "quote-tweets"? Switch to something that isn't Mastodon, and you've got "quote-tweets".
Or text formatting in posts like bold type, italics, underline,
code blocks etc. Would be great if Mastodon had that, in spite of other people saying they don't want it.Again: Pleroma already has it. Akkoma already has it. MissKey already has it. CalcKey already has it. FoundKey already hasit. GoToSocial already has it. Friendica already has it. Hubzilla already has it (look at this post at its source in a Web browser and weep). (streams) already has it. And so forth. This time, even Mastodon forks have it.
It has been done. It has been done many times. It has actually been done before Mastodon.
Next, long-form blog posting. We need something like #Medium in the Fediverse that isn't Medium itself. Mastodon's 500 characters are too few, and Twitter-like threads are inconvenient.
Except we already have that, too. #Plume and #WriteFreely are about as close to Medium as Mastodon is to Twitter, including clean and distraction-less layouts. Oh, and Hubzilla can do that, too.
By the way: Again, Mastodon is the only Fediverse project that can do microblogging that has a 500-character limit. Pleroma, Mastodon's oldest direct competitor, raised it to a default of 6,000. MissKey and its forks have 3,000 as a default. Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) have character limits of "go ahead, drop your short story in one post in its entirety," so virtually none at all. And yes, Hubzilla has long-form writing on top of that.
Speaking of Hubzilla: Most recently, there has been the idea to uncouple one's online identity from a specific instance. Your online self should no longer be firmly tied to any one server exclusively. Now, this sounds so ambitious, it might just as well be science-fiction.
What if I told you that just this very thing already exists as well?
No, really. No, I'm not making this up. But you should know by now that I'm not.
Better yet: It was conceived as early as 2011. By the guy who launched Friendica in 2010. He invented a new principle named #NomadicIdentity and a new protocol named #Zot. In its early stages already, even with no technical implementation yet, Zot was more powerful than ActivityPub is today.
In 2012, Zot became reality as the basis of a Friendica fork which later became known as #RedMatrix and, upon its 1.0 stable release in late 2015, which is still prior to Mastodon's initial release, Hubzilla. Hubzilla is still being developed and improved, and it has a fledgling but growing "successor of a successor" named (streams) which offers nomadic identity, too.
Now, what does this nomadic identity even look like? Well, not only does it let you move your channel(s) around from instance to instance with ease and, unlike on Mastodon, with absolutely everything on it. No, it also lets you have your channel on multiple instances at once. Identical clones, automagically kept in sync in real-time, all with the same identity, the same content, the same connections.
Your identity is no longer strapped down to one instance. Not only that, but your channel, your posts, your content is no longer hosted on only one server. This means that if one instance with one of your clones goes down, you still have spares.
Okay, so how about community groups/forums? That'd be cool.
Well, for one, there's #Guppe. It's basically bolted on Mastodon, and in practice, it's centralised because there's only one instance. But it's impractical to use.
Besides, this is becoming a running gag here, Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) have exactly this built-in and open for the rest of the Fediverse.
Better yet: There's also #Lemmy which amounts to a federated #Reddit or #HackerNews clone. So not only does Lemmy offer this, it specialises in it.
Hubzilla alone can provide Fediverse feature suggestions with "has been done" for years to come. Not to mention what else the Fediverse has to offer. Even if someone should want a free, non-commercial, decentralised, federated #GoodReads clone in the Fediverse, it has been done: #BookWyrm.
- Fediverse.Party - explore federated networks
Let's make social media free, federated and fun! Fediverse.Party is your guide into the world of decentralized, autonomous networks running on free open software on a myriad of servers across the world. No ads and no algorithms.fediverse.party
by Sarah Gooding @pollyplummer at @wptavern
#wordpress
https://wptavern.com/wordpress-project-to-evaluate-replacing-slack-with-matrix-open-source-chat
WordPress Project to Evaluate Replacing Slack with Matrix Open Source Chat
WordPress and Matrix contributors are proposing a new Meta team subproject that would explore replacing Slack communication with Matrix, an open source federated chat system. Matrix already powers …WP Tavern
https://www.thewpcommunitycollective.com/
The WPCC is using Open Collective Foundation as the fiscal sponsor for its 501(c)3 status.
https://opencollective.com/thewpcc
#wordpress
The WP Community Collective - Open Collective
The WP Community Collective supports and funds individual contribution and community-based initiatives for the open-source WordPress project.opencollective.com
Jest to bardzo ciekawy temat. Być może #mastodon i całe #fediwerse oparte na #ActivityPup wyprą komercyjne #sosialmedia i staną się nową jakościią w internecie.
Ja z tego co wiem to #tyflopodcast i #tyfloświat stoją na #wordpress i tutaj możnaby było zastosować wtyczkę do wordpressa która umożliwiłaby śledzenie i interakcje z tymi serwisami przez inne konta np z mastodona.
Fajna sprawa by to była.
A wiadomość z dzisiaj z mastodona, serwis blogowy #tumbr też chce zaimplementować activitypub w celu większej integracji z fediwerse.
Sorry for not formatting the command-line blocks properly, I wasn't sure how to do it in Markdown and then the Pandoc + Wordpress formatter combination messed it up even more so I had to stitch it up together my self.
I really need to find some #Wordpress #Markdown plugin.
Let me know what you think!
https://mudb0y.me/index.php/2022/11/15/fun-with-the-icon-pda/
https://github.com/stokry/wp-sqlite
GitHub - stokry/wp-sqlite: WordPress running on an SQLite database
WordPress running on an SQLite database. Contribute to stokry/wp-sqlite development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub