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My reply to a GitHub discussion on why WordPress should have their own Mastodon account:

Well, the first thing what I'm a bit bummed about here is that why is WordPress.org seeking only a commercial, wide-as-possible-reach type of platform in social media when the other major foot is obviously in the open source world? Mastodon and the Fediverse is full of WordPress and PHP people and influencers, WordPress itself connects to ActivityPub and Threads.net connects to ActivityPub as well. So the reach is not any absolute metric here as it's not just one platform. It's the whole web.

For the second question, just see how much WordPress is talked about between instances, I've seen numerous folks of missing the official WordPress account there, including the community folks.

Here are some examples of the brand accounts:

- Internet Archive, 52K followers
- Have I Been Pwned, 14K followers
- 9to5Mac, 25K followers
- World Wide Web Consortium, 31K followers
- GIMP, 10K followers
- Electronic Frontier Foundation, 62K followers
- 1Password, 9.3K followers
- Signal, 51K followers

In my mind the worlds largest open source CMS should be a part of this open social web movement.

Original comment here: https://github.com/WordPress/Marketing-Team/discussions/168#discussioncomment-10315164

You're welcome to chime in.

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