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minus-squarelily33@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-21 day agoAs someone who has no knowledge of the ecosystem: Why would people who self-host wordpress care about access to wordpress.org? Isn’t the point of self-hostung to use your own infrastructure?
minus-squareByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·12 hours agoConvenience. Imagine buying a iPhone and not having access to the App Store. Sure there are ways around it. But the average iPhone user would have a melt down.
minus-squaretaladar@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 day agoThe mechanisms built into Wordpress for auto-updates and plugin updates use that infrastructure.
As someone who has no knowledge of the ecosystem: Why would people who self-host wordpress care about access to wordpress.org? Isn’t the point of self-hostung to use your own infrastructure?
Convenience.
Imagine buying a iPhone and not having access to the App Store.
Sure there are ways around it. But the average iPhone user would have a melt down.
The mechanisms built into Wordpress for auto-updates and plugin updates use that infrastructure.