Automattic is one of the most important companies on the Internet.
They make Tumblr, WooCommerce, Akismet, LongReads, WordPress—among others.
WordPress alone powers ~44% of the world's websites.
More interesting: despite being such a large, dominant company, few people hate Automattic.
Why is this? 🧵
@atomicpoet Maybe there weren't any big #scandal regarding that company?
Although for me it doesn't really matter which company it is, if it's big and with too much power it should not exist.
Either way, about #wordpress i'd guess from those 44% not even 50% are hosted by them, but by self-hosting.
I despise google and Microsoft, but there are some nice totally offline and opensource tools that we all use (see the linux kernel)
Chris Trottier
The Real Coffee