Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users' Data to Train AI Tools

photomatt frequently shows up in HN discussions covering Automattic. I wonder whether he will this time.

Automattic was on my (very short) "good guys against all odds" list, not sure whether they still are after this. But I guess the world isn't so black and white - money has to come in somehow.

He's on a sabbatical for three months. Make of that what you will.

I have been working on a privacy-first managed WordPress hosting company for a while now; maybe I should speed things up.

[dupe]

Some more discussion earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39527588

this is yet another reason why we need go back to self-hosting and indieweb movement. To own our own platforms and content and keep them away from just being sold like that. That's a disgusting move by Automattic.

I mean most people who care about it & are tech-savvy enough are either self-hosting already... or, realizing (after spending way too much time on getting something running securely), they don't care that much after all.

Yeah I used WP, but pondered static gen for a while. This seals the deal. Deleted my WP blog. It's like when 6A bought LJ levels of disgust from me.