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Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork

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465 points impish9208 | 1 comments | 11 Jan 25 18:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.246s | source
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diggan ◴[11 Jan 25 23:28 UTC] No.42669804[source]▶
From Mullenweg (https://wordpress.org/news/2025/01/jkpress/):

> To make this easy and hopefully give this project the push it needs to get off the ground, I’m deactivating the .org accounts of Joost, Karim, Se Reed, Heather Burns, and Morten Rand-Hendriksen. I strongly encourage anyone who wants to try different leadership models or align with WP Engine to join up with their new effort.

He seems to be justifying the deactivation by claiming it will 'help them', somehow?

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1. ablation ◴[12 Jan 25 08:16 UTC] No.42672056[source]▶
The fact that any of the Wordpress community is standing by him at this point makes it feel more like Stockholm syndrome or a cargo cult than a healthy open source project.