#Automattic
#Beeper, a multi-service #messaging app, is relaunching with a more #secure #ondevice model and #premium upgrades. The app, now owned by #Automattic, supports various #messagingplatforms and aims to simplify the management of multiple apps while prioritising user privacy. https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/beepers-all-in-one-messaging-app-relaunches-with-an-on-device-model-and-premium-upgrades/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
Hat von euch schon jemand #Beeper ausprobiert? https://www.beeper.com
Die App von #Automattic ist ein Messenger, mit dem ihr mit etlichen anderen Messengern unterschiedlicher Firmen kommunizieren könnt. Mag praktisch sein. Frage mich als Laie, wie sicher das ist?
Every time Matt does a interview, our hope he will Make The Righ Thing shrink by half.
He is the Achiles pursuing a turtle of our time.
#Tumblr #Automattic #Matt
Why Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Went to War Over WordPress, by @photomatt and @nilaypatel (@verge):
"I want to get #Beeper to 100 million users. I feel that’s actually sort of the first product from #Automattic that has the potential to actually be really, really large because its usage is kind of a superset of every messaging network, and the power users are the most frequent users on each of those."
#MattMullenweg, founder and CEO of #Automattic, discusses the company’s #evolution and its focus on both #enterprise and #consumer products: Automattic, known for #WordPress, has acquired companies like #Beeper and #Clay to expand its offerings. https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/693052/automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-wordpress-drama-wp-engine-open-source?eicker.news #tech #media #news
#Automattic has #halted plans to move #Tumblr’s backend to #WordPress, prioritising user-facing improvements: While the move may be revisited, it currently impacts Tumblr’s potential #integration with #thefediverse. https://www.theverge.com/news/695124/tumblr-wordpress-automattic-fediverse-integration-on-hold-decoder?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News
Sometimes LinkedIn's approach to anonymising who looks you up isn't very effective.
I wonder who that could be? 
#note #socialNetworking #anonymity #wordpress #automattic #funny #stalker
Via: 
https://danq.me/2025/07/01/founder-at-wordpress-viewed-your-profile/
#Automattic, owners of #Wordpress and #Tumblr, have decided not to migrate Tumblr to Wordpress meaning that #Fediverse for Tumblr is only going to happen if they implement it in Tumblr itself.
Automattic's plan to move Tumblr's backend to WordPress is "on hold," which means Tumblr posts also won't be available in the fediverse in the near future, CEO Matt Mullenweg said in a Decoder episode. Here's more from @theverge.
Earlier today, @davew published a blog post titled WordPress and me. He talked about WordLand, his focused and fast editor for writers and bloggers. Through developing the editor, he’s discovered WordPress again.
WordPress as the OS of the open social web
I think WordPress has all that’s needed to be the OS of the open social web. We needed it and it’s always been there, and I saw something that I want to show everyone else, that the web can grow from here, we should build on everything that the WordPress community has created. It’s a lot stronger foundation that the other candidates for the basic needs of the open social web, imho.
I’ve been following Dave’s work with WordLand for the past few months, and it’s been really nice and encouraging to see him work on a product that aligns with my values. And now, Dave will get to present his tool and his ideas to others in the WordPress community! He will be talking at WordCamp Canada in October.
It should come as no surprise that someone so involved with some of the key concepts of the Open Web, like RSS, values ideals of openness and giving writers control over their content. WordLand’s approach to “what you see is what you get” is something that aligns so well with WordPress’ own ideals. It clashes with walled gardens like Twitter or Bluesky where you’re limited in length, format, content, and where you ultimately do not own your writing. It’s super motivating and empowering when someone newer to the WordPress ecosystem recognizes those shared values and the power of the platform.
Rediscovering WordPress
In his post, Dave talked about his journey of rediscovering WordPress through a new lens. The WordPress.com REST API, its endpoints and its authentication layer, gave him the tools to build the editor he needed, while still benefiting from everything the WordPress community has created in the past 22 years.
This is also what we had in mind when Automattic released Calypso 10 years ago:
Calypso is…
- Incredibly fast. It’ll charm you.
- Written purely in JavaScript, leveraging libraries like Node and React.
- 100% API-powered. Those APIs are open, and now available to every developer in the world.
Calypso and its underlying API paved the way for the first REST API endpoints that made it to WordPress itself a year later. That API then became a cornerstone of the Gutenberg project:
WordPress has always been about the user experience, and that needs to continue to evolve under newer demands. Gutenberg is an attempt at fundamentally addressing those needs, based on the idea of content blocks. It’s an attempt to improve how users interact with their content in a fundamentally visual way, while at the same time giving developers the tools to create more fulfilling experiences for the people they are helping.
WordPress.com REST API vs. WordPress REST API
On a more technical note, the folks more familiar with WordPress will wonder why WordLand uses the WordPress.com REST API, and not the core WordPress REST API.
Dave chose to use the WordPress.com API for WordLand — and that makes perfect sense for the goals of the project. It provides built-in authentication and opinionated endpoints that would otherwise need to be built on top of the core REST API, and would need to be shipped to every site that wants to use the WordLand editor. That’s simply not what WordLand was designed to do.
Perhaps more importantly, the WordPress.com REST API is just one of the many ways to interact with WordPress. That’s the beauty of WordPress: it’s open and flexible, allowing different tools and solutions to thrive. In this case, it’s nice to see how WordLand, WordPress, and WordPress.com came together to empower writers, each bringing their own strengths to the table. It’s a great example of how open tools and platforms can work hand-in-hand to create something truly special.
It’s always exciting to see new tools emerge from old foundations — and even more so when they help bring us closer to the open web we want to build. Funny enough, the WordPress.com REST API still relies on XML-RPC — a technology built by Dave 27 years ago 
Go write something!
If you haven’t tried WordLand yet, go give it a try! All you need is a WordPress site, either hosted on WordPress.com or running the Jetpack plugin.
"On June 20, 2005, @photomatt made his first hire: @donncha a software developer who had been working on the WordPress project. And with that, #Automattic was born. [...] Here’s to the next 20.”
Twenty Years at Automattic
When I started working at Automattic, it was just me and Matt, and two servers. A web server and a MySQL server. I knew the root password to WordPress.com. I needed it as I spent a lot of time tuning the MySQL server in those days, but I was thrilled when we got some real systems people on board like Barry. I have to admit to a certain sadness when I ran sudo and the password didn’t work, however.
When I started working at Automattic, many of my colleagues I work with now, were still in school. There was a time at the start of this year that my team had the first employee and the latest employee on it. I didn’t have any grey hair then, and well, I have some now, and I make jokes about the “old days” but there are quite a few of us boldermatticians.
I spent most of my time working in Vim, in an SSH session, but that’s changed to VS Code and Cursor in recent years. I tried the Vim extensions for those, but they never felt as good as the original.
Now, it’s the upstart AIs that are disrupting everything related to my job, but while it certainly feels like it’s making me a lot more productive, apparently it’s making me dumb too. Time will tell. Andrej Karpathy uses a number of analogies in this video at Y Combinator, but one thing that resonated with me was his comparing the state of AI to computing in the 60s. There were massive mainframes that people used thin clients (or punch cards!) to interact with them. In 2025, the AI is this brain in the cloud we talk to and ask questions of in a chat window. What’s it going to be like in another twenty years?
Anyway, I’m looking forward to seeing what happens in the next twenty years at Automattic!
“I helped grow the company from twenty to almost two thousand people through significant engineering and product development roles.”
No, no you did not.
Unless you count the increase in Support staff because of the fucking disaster that was Calypso.
Oh, the #Gravatar / #Automattic team wrote about federated social networks, but they did not mention #ActivityPub for #WordPress.
https://blog.gravatar.com/2025/06/13/decentralized-social-media/
" #Automattic Welcomes Clay"
https://automattic.com/2025/06/12/automattic-welcomes-clay/
"Clay, a relationship management tool that automatically organizes and intelligently searches your entire network... Joining our Other Bets division alongside the likes of Beeper and Gravatar..."
“WordPress.com’s parent company, #Automattic, has partnered with Out in Tech, the world’s largest community of #LGBTQ+ tech leaders and professionals, since 2017. We’re proud to have helped build over 250 websites for nonprofit organizations that support and advocate for LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.”
FAIR para descentralizar o WordPress
A confusão desencadeada em 2024 pelo co-fundador do WordPress e CEO da Automattic, Matt Mullenweg, pode acabar rendendo um bom fruto. Na sexta (6), um grupo de ~300 colaboradores experientes no ecossistema, com o apoio da Linux Foundation, anunciou o FAIR, uma iniciativa para descentralizar componentes críticos do WordPress.
Ao longo do embate entre Matt e a WP Engine, o controle exacerbado do executivo de recursos críticos, em especial o WordPress.org, que distribui atualizações do […]
A collective of former #WordPress #developers and contributors backed by #LinuxFoundation launched FAIR Package Manager, a new and independent distribution system for trusted WordPress #plugins and #themes.
This is a response to recent controversy after legal conflict between commercial WordPress hosting providers #Automattic and #WPEngine, after former banned the latter's access to the WordPress platform used by all WordPress sites to keep plugins and themes up-to-date.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/linux-foundation-unveils-decentralized-wordpress-plugin-manager/