On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 7:15 AM Ilya Orlov <[email protected]> wrote:

> > And these aren't isolated cases. TypeScript, Go, the Apache
> > Foundation, the Linux Foundation, and many others actively communicate
> > on X. The pattern across language and OSS communities is presence, not
> > retreat.
>
> As someone in the Linux ecosystem I can list big community run projects
> that did leave X. Like Debian, KDE, GNOME.
> I think PHP as a community run project should follow these steps,
> not corporate run projects or projects heavily backed by corporations.
>

Just to be clear, Linux Foundation is almost entirely backed by
corporations; a long list of them appears right on the homepage.

I think Roman correctly stated that PHP currently lacks the same news
appeal as more visible languages like Rust & Python. Therefore, neglecting
a viable way to communicate with the user base seems counter-intuitive to
say the least.

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