I’m not dumping WordPress. What I am doing is dumping Automattic properties.

More here: sethgoldstein.me/on-wordpr…

I agree with stopping contributing to the open source project until Matt gets himself under control. I don’t think switching to another CMS is doing anything other than making yourself have a headache. Unless you’re game to CMS jump and have been CMS curious for a while.

I definitely like new stuff. But a learning curve isn’t in the cards right now.

I am hedging my bets with Mastodon and the Fediverse though. I’m spreading my wealth to Micro.blog (this very site) bc Eugene, who runs Mastodon is a BDFL and hasn’t gone off the rails, but with Mullenweg I didn’t think he’s go so off the map either.

DHH of Basecamp, Hey, Rails, fame has a good post about BDFL: world.hey.com/dhh/open-…