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title: "WordPress.com the other Medium.com?"
url: "https://sethgoldstein.me/wordpress-com-the-other-medium-com/"
updated: "2024-07-07T14:20:07+00:00"
sources:
  - "https://sethgoldstein.me/wordpress-com-the-other-medium-com/"
---

![Wordpress.com is the other Medium.com](https://sethgoldstein.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Wordpress.com-is-the-other-Medium.com_.jpg)*[Picture by Miradeshazer on Pixabay.com](https://pixabay.com/en/pen-paper-notebook-business-office-994464/)*With the new WordPress.com and Calypso, I’m noticing something I haven’t before. [WordPress.com](http://wordpress.com) is really the other [Medium.com](http://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](http://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.*