It's just an excuse to create a "papers please" internet.

If people are littering there it clearly isn't a no-go area. If anything it's a go-too-much area

ð is a thorn, it means "th".

No idea about the others.

This looks like an advert for Dstretch.

This seems to be an open source alternative https://github.com/BenDyson-Arch/LDCS

Oh I'm aware. In a way the plugin ecosystem is also one of the biggest issues with wordpress, it's full of freemium garbage that violates the spirit and in many cases the letter of the GPL.

But the point is that if you want a complete replacement for wordpress, it isn't just a blogging system you have to replicate. You also have to in some way replicate a forum, form builders, activitypub, an e-commerce system, calendar, booking system, SEO, page caching, ERP, CRM, etc.

Honestly coding a replacement wouldn't be difficult, there're already a few alternatives out there, it's the thousands of plugins you'd need to replace.

One of the issues with alternatives like ghost is not having a good plugin system.

I'd go further and say fiat currency in general.

People choose Corporate Memphis for a reason

I always assumed that reason was that it was cheap.

One of the reasons I'm pretty neutral on AI art is that it mostly replaced even more soulless stuff like corporate Memphis.

Or you opposed roko's Basilisk.

You forgot: can be mass produced using unskilled labour

Supply and demand, more supply means lower prices.