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Automattic has said for years that they (Wordpress) power X% of the internet. Before wordpress.com users had to actively choose WP. With the advent of wordpre
by markx2 2y ago
Automattic has said for years that they (Wordpress) power X% of the internet.
Before wordpress.com users had to actively choose WP.
With the advent of wordpress.com and it's 'freemium' tier that arguably started to distort numbers. After all, stale, dead "Hello World" blogs count toward stats.
Now, with Tumblr, Automattic will say they power X+% of the internet
When Automattic buys Blogger, that boast about powering % of the net will increase even further.
It's a takeover, not user choice.
- donohoe 2y agodead "Hello World" blogs count toward stats By the same argument, those same dead blogs on other platforms also count in the other direction too. The "WP powering X% of the internet" is just a nice PR/marketing blurb. It never had anything to do with user choice so I would bot conflate the two.