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title: "WordPress.com the other Medium.com?"
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excerpt: "With the new WordPress.com and Calypso, I’m noticing something I haven’t before. WordPress.com is really the other Medium.com. There is a vibrant community on the system and with Calypso and the new WordPress.com, it’s easier than ever to dive in..."
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# WordPress.com the other Medium.com?

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Seth Goldstein

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December 14, 2015

Sol 448

![Wordpress.com is the other Medium.com](https://sethgoldstein.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Wordpress.com-is-the-other-Medium.com_.jpg)

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With the new WordPress.com and Calypso, I’m noticing something I haven’t before. [WordPress.com](https://wordpress.com)
 is really the other [Medium.com](https://medium.com)
. There is a vibrant community on the system and with [Calypso](https://desktop.wordpress.com/)
 and the new WordPress.com, it’s easier than ever to dive in and read some great stuff.

Being a [Web designer](http://goldsteinmedia.com)
 and only using [self-hosted WordPress](http://wordpress.org)
, I’ve never noticed how neat the “Dot Com” actually is.*

When a visitor goes to WordPress.com, either via the desktop or mobile app or the Website, they can use it as a reader to discover great content and also to publish to their various WordPress.com and WordPress.org sites.

One thing I have noticed is that on the [mobile app on Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wordpress.android)
, you can only post to Dot Com blogs, not to the self-hosted version. I’m sure this will be changing (I hope. Hint, hint!).

**Have you explored [WordPress.com](https://Wordpress.com)
 lately? If not, check it out.**

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Footnote:

**Wordpress.com is owned by [Automattic](http://automattic.com)
, [Matt Mullenweg](http://ma.tt)
‘s company (Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress). It takes the blogging software, that is self-hosted, farther and hosts it for the user and makes getting your content online easy. WordPress.org is the self-hosted version that is run by the WordPress Foundation. It, along with Dot Com, run close to 25% of the Internet’s Websites.*

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, [blogging](https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/blogging/)
, [content discovery](https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/content-discovery/)
, [journalism](https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/journalism/)
, [wordpress](https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/wordpress/)
, [wordpress.com](https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/wordpress-com/)
, [wordpress.org](https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/wordpress-org/)
, [writing](https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/writing/)