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I loathe Meta as much, if not more, than the next person.
However, if upon the events at twitter a little over 6 months ago, they decided then to build a competitor and the result of that decision is Threads ... I have to congratulate them on a job well done.
If they did what Twitter is claiming, then I applaud them even more.
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There’s zero seeded content in threads and it would be stupid of meta to do so. They just needed to pay some influencers to get higher quality content cheaper then scraping it all.
Maybe the facts will bear out that there’s a case here, but my default position is one of skepticism. I guess one takeaway for me is if you don’t want your competitor to hire a bunch of your former employees, don’t make a bunch of your employees former employees.
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Isn't Threads just Instagram with optional text posts? Same old proprietary obfuscated mess, locked garden, meh, no thanks.
It aims to be interoperable via the activitypub protocol no?
Maybe the facts will bear out that there’s a case here, but my default position is one of skepticism. I guess one takeaway for me is if you don’t want your competitor to hire a bunch of your former employees, don’t make a bunch of your employees former employees.
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They are usually _not_ bullshit.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
IANAL > 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.” > He also alleged that Meta assigned those employees to develop “Meta’s copycat ‘Threads’ app with the specific intent that they use Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property in order to accelerate the development of Meta’s co…
I wouldn’t be surprised if part of Zuck’s goal with the Spider-Man meme was to prod Elon directly into this lawsuit which will surely go nowhere, cost pocket change to Meta, and push Twitter that much closer to bankruptcy. I don’t care much for either of these guys but you gotta love seeing a guy’s own toxic personality traits used against him. Looks like Zuck’s jiu jitsu training is paying off after all!
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If ANYONE other than Meta was behind threads.net, I would consider your theory. But this is Meta, millions of people will join regardless. The content will generate itself. There is no need for bootstrapping with stolen content, nor any insight to gain from analyzing twitter's content patterns. And if they were faced with a slow start, a tiny banner on instagram or facebook would convert hundreds of millions of users…
Maybe the facts will bear out that there’s a case here, but my default position is one of skepticism. I guess one takeaway for me is if you don’t want your competitor to hire a bunch of your former employees, don’t make a bunch of your employees former employees.
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You wouldn't put it past Zuck? Friendly reminder to everyone that Tesla knowledgeably violated GPL for years until they were forced into compliance: https://www.theregister.com/2018/05/21/tesla_inches_toward_g...
I don't trust for a second that Elon's team knows what they're talking about here.
Oh good grief. This is fair game, Mr. Musk. Scaling aside, Twitter is as simple an application as you could imagine.
The product is (deceptively) simple but the sheer scale makes it a very complex system.