[ribosometronome]

Apologies, I'm probably under a rock, but why is that bad? I see they're behind WordPress but am not sure what the 1:1 is. The WP Engine stuff?

[Legend2440]

There was some WP drama between Automattic and the WP community a while back.

Also the whole point of Bluesky is that they aren't supposed to be a big evil silicon valley tech company. But now you have a silicon-valley VC running the thing.

[orphea]

Matt M. was behind the drama from WordPress' side though. It looks like Toni Schneider left in 2014.

[rmccue]

Toni was in fact the adult supervision brought in by Automattic’s board when the company was young and Matt was inexperienced.

[bombcar]

And apparently adult supervision was needed.

[qingcharles]

And still needed...

[bananamogul]

"Some drama"...yeah, the way there was drama between Germany and the Soviet Union back in 1941.

Automattic's Matt Mullenweg is downright insane. Just google their war with WP Engine and by extension the entire WordPress community.

[captainbland]

They'd already taken VC money hadn't they? It's got to be said though that tech startups are getting very formulaic. Monster of the week vibes.