Twitter is looking to sue Meta for "stealing trade secrets" amongst other things regarding Threads. Could/would they also take aim at Mastodon?

dragnucs, 11 months ago

This looks like the fight between elon and mark they were talking about.

BNE, 11 months ago

Yeah, damn - that cage match would have been one hell of a pay-per-view.

What a weird corporate hellscape we inhabit, lol.

adespoton, 11 months ago

It’s due to Meta hiring a bunch of the ex-Twitter employees Elon screwed over.

Mastodon didn’t do that, so isn’t in his crosshairs.

alex, 11 months ago

Just a suggestion, you might want to insert the word “allegedly” somewhere in there because Meta is refuting that assertion.

“To be clear: ‘No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing” - Andy Stone, Meta’s communications director

edit: yes I know that doesn’t preclude the possibility of Meta hiring former Twitter employees and not making them part of the Threads team.

Mirodir, 11 months ago

Obviously a good thing to keep the “allegedly”, but that statement doesn’t refute what the other person claimed. They said Meta hired them, not Meta put them in the Threads team.

Also I obviously don’t know how Meta is structured, but where I’m at, it wouldn’t be unusual for someone not part of a team to still talk to members of a team, give advice, etc.

histy, 11 months ago

I see no foundation in this supposed process, precisely because treads is using fediverse. The software is opensource and existed before musk went down on twitter. This is just another one of musk’s great moves showing the competition the size of his desperation

alex, 11 months ago

You could’ve ended that sentence with another word and it would still be accurate.

And that’s all I’m sayin’.

popekingjoe, 11 months ago

It seems like it’s just Elon throwing a big old man baby fit.