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Robert LenderHat von euch schon jemand <a href="https://microblog.at/tags/Beeper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Beeper</a> ausprobiert? <a href="https://www.beeper.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.beeper.com</a>Die App von <a href="https://microblog.at/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Automattic</a> ist ein Messenger, mit dem ihr mit etlichen anderen Messengern unterschiedlicher Firmen kommunizieren könnt. Mag praktisch sein. Frage mich als Laie, wie sicher das ist?

SubversivoEvery time Matt does a interview, our hope he will Make The Righ Thing shrink by half. He is the Achiles pursuing a turtle of our time. <a class="hashtag" href="https://app.wafrn.net/dashboard/search/Tumblr" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tumblr</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://app.wafrn.net/dashboard/search/Automattic" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Automattic</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://app.wafrn.net/dashboard/search/Matt" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Matt</a>

Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻"I want to get <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Beeper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Beeper</a> to 100 million users. I feel that’s actually sort of the first product from <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Automattic</a> that has the potential to actually be really, really large because its usage is kind of a superset of every messaging network, and the power users are the most frequent users on each of those."

Fedizen ⁂ Fediverse News<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Automattic</a> has <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/halted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#halted</a> plans to move <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tumblr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tumblr</a>’s backend to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WordPress</a>, prioritising user-facing improvements: While the move may be revisited, it currently impacts Tumblr’s potential <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/integration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#integration</a> with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thefediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thefediverse</a>. <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/695124/tumblr-wordpress-automattic-fediverse-integration-on-hold-decoder?Fedizen.EU" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theverge.com/news/695124/tumblr-wordpress-automattic-fediverse-integration-on-hold-decoder?Fedizen.EU</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fedizen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fedizen</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#News</a>

🧿🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Automattic</a>, owners of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wordpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wordpress</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tumblr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tumblr</a>, have decided not to migrate Tumblr to Wordpress meaning that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> for Tumblr is only going to happen if they implement it in Tumblr itself. <a href="https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/693052/automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-wordpress-drama-wp-engine-open-source#:~:text=You%20migrated%20the,Tumblr%20code%20base" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/693052/automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-wordpress-drama-wp-engine-open-source#:~:text=You%20migrated%20the,Tumblr%20code%20base</a>.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialMedia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blogging</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microblog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#microblog</a>

Flipboard Tech DeskAutomattic's plan to move Tumblr's backend to WordPress is "on hold," which means Tumblr posts also won't be available in the fediverse in the near future, CEO Matt Mullenweg said in a Decoder episode. Here's more from <a href="https://flipboard.com/@theverge" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@theverge</a>.<a href="https://flip.it/P8_x4D" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://flip.it/P8_x4D</a><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WordPress</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Tumbler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tumbler</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Automattic</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tech</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Technology</a>

Jeremy HerveEarlier today, <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-url mention" href="https://mastodon.social/@davew" target="_blank">@davew</a> published a blog post titled <a href="https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2025/06/23/wordpressAndMe.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">WordPress and me</a>. He talked about <a href="https://wordland.social/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">WordLand</a>, his focused and fast editor for writers and bloggers. Through developing the editor, he’s discovered WordPress again.WordPress as the OS of the open social web<blockquote>I think WordPress has all that’s needed to be the OS of the open social web. We needed it and it’s always been there, and I saw something that I want to show everyone else, that the web can grow from here, we should build on everything that the WordPress community has created. It’s a lot stronger foundation that the other candidates for the basic needs of the open social web, imho.<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-url mention" href="https://mastodon.social/@davew" target="_blank">@davew</a></blockquote>I’ve been following Dave’s work with WordLand for the past few months, and it’s been really nice and encouraging to see him work on a product that aligns with my values. And now, Dave will get to present his tool and his ideas to others in the WordPress community! <a href="https://canada.wordcamp.org/2025/wceh-keynote-dave-winer/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">He will be talking at WordCamp Canada in October</a>.It should come as no surprise that someone so involved with some of the key concepts of the Open Web, like RSS, values ideals of openness and giving writers control over their content. WordLand’s approach to « what you see is what you get » is something that aligns so well with WordPress’ own ideals. It clashes with walled gardens like Twitter or Bluesky where you’re limited in length, format, content, and where you ultimately do not own your writing. It’s super motivating and empowering when someone newer to the WordPress ecosystem recognizes those shared values and the power of the platform.Rediscovering WordPressIn his post, Dave talked about his journey of rediscovering WordPress through a new lens. The WordPress.com REST API, its endpoints and its authentication layer, gave him the tools to build the editor he needed, while still benefiting from everything the WordPress community has created in the past 22 years.This is also what we had in mind when Automattic released Calypso 10 years ago:<blockquote>Calypso is…<ul><li>Incredibly fast. It’ll charm you.</li><li>Written purely in JavaScript, leveraging libraries like Node and React.</li><li>100% API-powered. Those APIs <a href="https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/api/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">are open</a>, and now available to every developer in the world.</li></ul><a href="https://ma.tt/2015/11/dance-to-calypso/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Matt — Dance to Calypso</a></blockquote>Calypso and its underlying API paved the way for <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2016/12/vaughan/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">the first REST API endpoints that made it to WordPress itself a year later</a>. That API then became a cornerstone of the Gutenberg project:<blockquote>WordPress has always been about the user experience, and that needs to continue to evolve under newer demands. Gutenberg is an attempt at fundamentally addressing those needs, based on the idea of content blocks. It’s an attempt to improve how users interact with their content in a fundamentally visual way, while at the same time giving developers the tools to create more fulfilling experiences for the people they are helping.<a href="https://matiasventura.com/post/gutenberg-or-the-ship-of-theseus/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Matías Ventura — Gutenberg, or the Ship of Theseus </a></blockquote>WordPress.com REST API vs. WordPress REST APIOn a more technical note, the folks more familiar with WordPress will wonder why WordLand uses <a href="https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/api/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">the WordPress.com REST API</a>, and not <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">the core WordPress REST API</a>. Dave chose to use the WordPress.com API for WordLand — and that makes perfect sense for the goals of the project. It provides built-in authentication and opinionated endpoints that would otherwise need to be built on top of the core REST API, and would need to be shipped to every site that wants to use the WordLand editor. That’s simply not what WordLand was designed to do.Perhaps more importantly, the WordPress.com REST API is just one of the many ways to interact with WordPress. That’s the beauty of WordPress: it’s open and flexible, allowing different tools and solutions to thrive. In this case, it’s nice to see how WordLand, WordPress, and WordPress.com came together to empower writers, each bringing their own strengths to the table. It’s a great example of how open tools and platforms can work hand-in-hand to create something truly special.It’s always exciting to see new tools emerge from old foundations — and even more so when they help bring us closer to the open web we want to build. Funny enough, the WordPress.com REST API still relies on XML-RPC — a technology built by Dave 27 years ago 🙂Go write something!If you haven’t tried WordLand yet, <a href="https://wordland.social/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">go give it a try</a>! All you need is a WordPress site, either hosted on WordPress.com or <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">running the Jetpack plugin</a>.<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://herve.bzh/t/automattic/" target="_blank">#Automattic</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://herve.bzh/t/en/" target="_blank">#EN</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://herve.bzh/t/open-web/" target="_blank">#OpenWeb</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://herve.bzh/t/wceh/" target="_blank">#WCEH</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://herve.bzh/t/wordland/" target="_blank">#WordLand</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://herve.bzh/t/wordpress/" target="_blank">#WordPress</a>

James Huff :prami_pride:"On June 20, 2005, <a href="https://mastodon.social/@photomatt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@photomatt</a> made his first hire: <a href="https://mastodon.ie/@donncha" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@donncha</a> a software developer who had been working on the WordPress project. And with that, <a href="https://social.lol/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Automattic</a> was born. [...] Here’s to the next 20.”<a href="https://automattic.com/2025/06/20/automattic-20-years/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://automattic.com/2025/06/20/automattic-20-years/</a>

Nick Bohle 🇪🇺Oh, the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gravatar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gravatar</a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Automattic</a> team wrote about federated social networks, but they did not mention <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WordPress</a>.<a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2025/06/13/decentralized-social-media/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.gravatar.com/2025/06/13/decentralized-social-media/</a>

David Bisset" <a href="https://phpc.social/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Automattic</a> Welcomes Clay"<a href="https://automattic.com/2025/06/12/automattic-welcomes-clay/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://automattic.com/2025/06/12/automattic-welcomes-clay/</a>"Clay, a relationship management tool that automatically organizes and intelligently searches your entire network... Joining our Other Bets division alongside the likes of Beeper and Gravatar..."<a href="https://phpc.social/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WordPress</a>

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬A collective of former <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WordPress</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/developers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#developers</a> and contributors backed by <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/LinuxFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LinuxFoundation</a> launched FAIR Package Manager, a new and independent distribution system for trusted WordPress <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/plugins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plugins</a> and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/themes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#themes</a>. This is a response to recent controversy after legal conflict between commercial WordPress hosting providers <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Automattic</a> and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/WPEngine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WPEngine</a>, after former banned the latter's access to the WordPress platform used by all WordPress sites to keep plugins and themes up-to-date. <a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/linux-foundation-unveils-decentralized-wordpress-plugin-manager/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/linux-foundation-unveils-decentralized-wordpress-plugin-manager/</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseTechCrunch: Automattic says it will start contributing to WordPress again after pause. “In a blog post titled ‘Returning to Core’ published Thursday evening, Automattic announced it will unpause its contributions to the WordPress project. This is despite having said only last month that the 6.8 WordPress release would be the final major release for all of 2025.”<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/04/techcrunch-automattic-says-it-will-start-contributing-to-wordpress-again-after-pause/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/04/techcrunch-automattic-says-it-will-start-contributing-to-wordpress-again-after-pause/</a>

LorryThe <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Automattic</a> Customer Service (sorry "Customer Happiness") team are quite nice to deal with, at least the ones at Pocket Casts. I didn't quite get what I needed, but that was more my fault for being riddled with ADHD and chronic forgetfulness than theirs.They came to a good compromise though.I feel I should probably call out good CS when I see it rather than just whining about the bad :D<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CustomerService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CustomerService</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PocketCasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PocketCasts</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Podcast</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Android</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ADHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ADHD</a>

James Huff :prami_pride:"After last year’s fun with a photo drive, we’ve decided to repeat it this year with another <a href="https://social.lol/tags/photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#photo</a> drive to the <a href="https://social.lol/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WordPress</a> Photo Directory! Once more, we’re offering up some cash prizes as a bonus. The funding for the prizes are proudly powered by Queeromattic, the collection of queers within <a href="https://social.lol/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Automattic</a>. "<a href="https://lgbtqpress.com/2025/05/share-your-pride-photo-drive-is-back-for-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lgbtqpress.com/2025/05/share-your-pride-photo-drive-is-back-for-2025/</a>

Ecologia Digital"We launched in Sep/2024 with a bold mission: to foster an <a href="https://mato.social/tags/open" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#open</a>, <a href="https://mato.social/tags/decentralized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#decentralized</a>, and <a href="https://mato.social/tags/usercentric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#usercentric</a> <a href="https://mato.social/tags/socialweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialweb</a>. In just the few short months that remained in 2024, we made meaningful progress. Our participation at <a href="https://mato.social/tags/W3C" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#W3C</a> <a href="https://mato.social/tags/TPAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TPAC</a> and collaborations with major stakeholders like <a href="https://mato.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a>, <a href="https://mato.social/tags/Ghost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ghost</a>, and <a href="https://mato.social/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Automattic</a> have helped spark momentum for a healthier, more resilient online ecosystem. Today we are proud to publish our 2024 <a href="https://mato.social/tags/AnnualReport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AnnualReport</a>– the first of many." <a href="https://mato.social/tags/SWF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SWF</a> <a href="https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/05/06/reflecting-on-our-first-year-the-social-web-foundations-2024-annual-report/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/05/06/reflecting-on-our-first-year-the-social-web-foundations-2024-annual-report/</a>

Michael NordmeyerToday, I stumbled over a blog post by <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Gravatar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gravatar</a> titled “Build Your AI Identity with Gravatar’s New Tool”, and I’m glad I deleted my Gravatar account many years ago.Coincidently, while trying to see how bad Gravatar became by reading the post, my ad blocker blocked me from visiting this domain. Former me was smart enough to add this domain to the block list, because the time of embedding third-party content in a website has passed for privacy reasons many years ago.<a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Automattic</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WordPress</a>

Dan QLeaving <a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Automattic</a> this month felt like a <a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/breakup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#breakup</a>. 💔And so, like any rational person, I processed my feelings using a Venn-Euler <a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/diagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#diagram</a>: 😅🔗 <a href="https://danq.me/breakups-vs-layoffs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://danq.me/breakups-vs-layoffs</a>

Matthias PfefferleThanks a lot <a href="https://mastodon.social/@lordmatt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@lordmatt</a> but there is no need to give us a tip, we have the great luck that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Automattic</a> takes good care of us ❤️ If you think about donating to another fediverse project, simple give them a bit more 😊 /cc <a href="https://mastodon.social/@obenland" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@obenland</a>

ResearchBuzz: Firehose404 Media: Following Layoffs, Automattic Employees Discover Leak-Catching Watermarks. “As part of the company’s months-long obsession with catching employees leaking internal developments to the press, staff at Wordpress parent company Automattic recently noticed individually-unique watermarks on internal sites, according to employees who spoke to 404 Media.”<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/19/404-media-following-layoffs-automattic-employees-discover-leak-catching-watermarks/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/19/404-media-following-layoffs-automattic-employees-discover-leak-catching-watermarks/</a>

Marcel Waldvogel 🔜 WHYThe company behind <a href="https://waldvogel.family/tags/Wordpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wordpress</a>, <a href="https://waldvogel.family/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Automattic</a>, is getting increasingly aligned.The employee base now consist of "Mullenweg’s strongest supporters, and people who couldn’t afford to risk leaving their jobs", neither of which will contradict <a href="https://waldvogel.family/tags/Mullenweg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mullenweg</a>. Apparently recently, Automattic has been adding watermarking to the background in internal communications systems. The result will be that those afraid of leaving will be even more compliant. What a work culture. <a href="https://www.404media.co/automattic-wordpress-p2-watermark-leakers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.404media.co/automattic-wordpress-p2-watermark-leakers/</a>

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