Dot. to People Twitter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish • 5 months agoWordpress and self-hosting.feddit.orgimagemessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1256arrow-down111file-text
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minus-square@lily33@lemm.eelinkfedilink4•edit-25 months 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-square@taladar@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink9•5 months agoThe mechanisms built into Wordpress for auto-updates and plugin updates use that infrastructure.
minus-square@ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglish3•5 months 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-squareLucy :3linkfedilink1•5 months ago Imagine buying an iPhone Well that’s your problem right there. Honestly, for Android you could actually use Aurora for most things, or only use stuff from F-Droid.
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?
The mechanisms built into Wordpress for auto-updates and plugin updates use that 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.
Well that’s your problem right there.
Honestly, for Android you could actually use Aurora for most things, or only use stuff from F-Droid.