{"id":3873,"date":"2022-02-17T18:31:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T18:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=3873"},"modified":"2022-02-17T18:31:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T18:31:02","slug":"wordinternet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2022\/02\/wordinternet\/","title":{"rendered":"WordInternet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.protocol.com\/matt-mullenweg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Can Matt Mullenweg save the internet?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHe&#8217;s turning Automattic into a different kind of tech giant. But can he take on the trillion-dollar walled gardens and give the internet back to the people?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I hope so. He and WordPress are quite remarkable. Low key yet unavoidable. WordPress is everywhere yet it\u2019s kind of hiding and not boasting in your face. It\u2019s just here.<\/p>\n<p>I find fascinating the fact that Matt is not aggressive in his business decisions, to a fault; I wish some of the Automattic tools were better, but that would mean going fast and break things and Matt knows that breaking things isn\u2019t a good strategy for clients.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress is on the <em>\u201cslow is smooth, smooth is fast\u201d <\/em>wave.<\/p>\n<p>But considering how social media has evolved, WordPress could be nagging users, telling them that the open web is better than ever and available without any TOS. They are not. I think that\u2019s smart. Letting people move by themselves is respectful, and the right thing to do. It is slow. There is no rush though.<\/p>\n<p>The article ends with an Albert Camus quote: <em>\u201cThe only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can Matt Mullenweg save the internet? \u201cHe&#8217;s turning Automattic into a different kind of tech giant. But can he take on the trillion-dollar walled gardens and give the internet back to the people?\u201d I hope so. He and WordPress are quite remarkable. Low key yet unavoidable. WordPress is everywhere yet it\u2019s kind of hiding and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3874,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions\/3874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}