>Spiro accused Meta of hiring dozens of former Twitter employees who “had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information.”<p>So you fire 80% of your workforce claiming they're dead weight and completely unnecessary, while simultaneously suing their new employer because apparently they were vital cogs who somehow "continue to have access to trade secrets"? So vital you're refusing to pay out any of their severance packages. Only in Elon land.
An entirely predictable turn of events. Next up:<p>- The lawsuit is never actually filed. Turns out just like Delaware (and unlike the SEC), California courts aren't going to bend to Musk's will.<p>- Twitter continues to bleed users and advertisers. Musk continues to double and triple down on his failed policies.<p>- Musk declares that this was his intention all along with the purchase, and killing Twitter was a "5D chess move". His fans eat it up.
Between this and Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino's weird tweet about how great Twitter is (<a href="https://twitter.com/lindayacc/status/1676965566597464065" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://twitter.com/lindayacc/status/1676965566597464065</a>), the arrival of Threads is <i>definitely</i> an existential threat for Twitter.
This is literally one of the worst moves Twitter could have made to combat Threads or any of their copies. They're literally giving more eyes and coverage to Threads and painting them as a real contender.
Threads is built on Instagram's code base, which is why you can't currently delete your account on one without deleting on both. So it'll be a tough fight for Elon to prove the code is stolen, since such a big chunk of it was already there for years.
We’ve come a ways from <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592569305941807104" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592569305941807104</a>, huh?
Despite this bone-headed move by Twitter, my question is: does this pose anti-trust problems for Meta?<p>Meta having a monopoly on all forms of social media does seem pretty bad to me.<p>I guess “monopoly” has a specific definition, but by having Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and the new Twitter, one company will control the majority of normal peoples’ communication online.
And here we are today because of MySpace. Good ole' Tom.<p>MySpace concreted Web 2.0. Facebook came a year later.<p>MySpace sold, Facebook continues. Twitter and here we are today.<p>Nothing has changed in the grand scheme of things, well apart from your privacy and your data being sold as a commodity.
In a similar vain is there any risk to Lemmy or Mastodon? Did any current or former Twitter or Reddit employees contribute to Lemmy, Mastodon or the other open source alternatives to Twitter and Reddit? If so would they be a target for big corporations like Twitter and Reddit to <i>pursue</i>?
The amount of "Twitter has no intellectual property I could build it in my bedroom" gaslighting going on in this discussion is unbelievable. Buried the needle.