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Re: Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads

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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 pursue?

Re: Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads

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I sincerely hope this ends in CEO single combat.

It was already about to happen, but, sadly, Elon's mom said "no" and vetoed the whole thing[0]. I doubt that she will change her mind on that anytime soon, unfortunately.

0. https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/elon-musks-mommy-says-hes-14...

Re: Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads

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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.

We can always rely on Elon Musk's Twitter to make the worst move.

Meanwhile (as the article says) Meta has confirmed no employee on the Threads team came from Twitter. So the letter is already shown to be completely without basis.

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