- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.ml
The threat suggests that Threads is the most serious rival yet to Elon Musk’s chaotic social platform.
The threat suggests that Threads is the most serious rival yet to Elon Musk’s chaotic social platform.
This seems like a pretty heavy lift for Twitter and while I hardly support Meta, if Twitter somehow manages to win sole ownership of the concept of microblogs it would be bad for everyone.
So long, Mastodon. (On the plus side, so long Frank Speech, Truth Social, Gab, etc. etc. etc.)
Yeah, my first reaction to this story was, why didn’t they sue any of the other Twitter clones before this?
Because Elon wasn’t worried about those.
I think it’s also pretty likely Meta is using actual code from Twitter, though. It’s not an upstanding company and it put Threads together as fast as possible.
Mastodon was put together over several years using open-source software and keeping open-source, so it probably genuinely doesn’t infringe on those patents.
Why would they need to use code from Twitter or even want to? They have hundreds or thousands of engineers to write their own, don’t necessarily use the same languages or tooling, and already have had IG, which works on the exact same model as Twitter, for a decade.