Foreseeing Elon being a child is like staring at the Sun and noticing it's bright.
I'm surprised Meta is the only* company with a competing product. *(Ignoring Bluesky since that's been in development for a while and Mastodon isn't a company.)
I might be pretty ignorant here but what is so proprietary about Twitter/Threads? It just lets people make public status updates and share photos. Unless they literally used the same lines of code, how is it infringement and trade secrets?
It's really not. Not to mention, like someone else said, Meta has said that they don't even have any former Twitter employees on their engineering team for Threads.
It's easy to make a website that lets random users post whatever they want and then display it in a feed. You could teach a novice how to do it in a weekend. Building a site that can scale to millions of users pretty much overnight is where the secret sauce is.
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fireshaper@social.belowland.com · 147 pts · 3y
Elon: "These geniuses will be of great use elsewhere"
The geniuses are hired by Meta to build a Twitter clone.
Elon: "Not like that!"
FarLine99@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 3y
it is base, you have to know!
someguy3@lemmy.ca · 79 pts · 3y
All jokes aside I believe Meta said they have no former Twitter employees on their engineering team.
I think someone smart foresaw Elon being a child. They deserve a nice bonus.
Psaldorn@lemmy.world · 57 pts · 3y
I'm curious what is a trade secret here.
Very basic functionality of twitter? Saving a message to a database?
Most of it is infrastructure.
Unless fucking up a blue check mark multiple times counts?
unreachable@lemmy.my.id · 18 pts · 3y
it used to called "re-tweet", but now it's "re-thread"
nyar@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 3y
It should be "weave" but apparently no one at meta knows what threads are used to do, so whatever....
someguy3@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 3y
A stitch. An unravel. A darn.
MimicJar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Foreseeing Elon being a child is like staring at the Sun and noticing it's bright.
I'm surprised Meta is the only* company with a competing product. *(Ignoring Bluesky since that's been in development for a while and Mastodon isn't a company.)
zumi@lemmy.sdf.org · 44 pts · 3y
Funny how that then turned to Meta "poaching" them. LMAO
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 21 pts · 3y
What do you bet in court proceedings it turns out that he in some way fucked up an NDA clause, thus torpedoing any chance his case had of succeeding?
Cubes@lemm.ee · 14 pts · 3y
AFAIK there is no case currently. They only threatened legal action.
Sludgehammer@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 3y
I doubt there will be one. IMO this is just Musk talking shit because he's mad people are ignoring Twitter.
AB7ORH7D@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 3y
I might be pretty ignorant here but what is so proprietary about Twitter/Threads? It just lets people make public status updates and share photos. Unless they literally used the same lines of code, how is it infringement and trade secrets?
VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social · 19 pts · 3y
It's really not. Not to mention, like someone else said, Meta has said that they don't even have any former Twitter employees on their engineering team for Threads.
ashok36@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y
It's easy to make a website that lets random users post whatever they want and then display it in a feed. You could teach a novice how to do it in a weekend. Building a site that can scale to millions of users pretty much overnight is where the secret sauce is.
vimdiesel@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y
You mean a site like Facebook or Instagram?
SIGSEGV@waveform.social · 2 pts · 3y
And that sauce takes at least another night to learn!
Saneless@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Well, Twitter switched to New Twitter and Facebook recreated Twitter Classic and I guess you could see why they think it's a trade secret
veroxii@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 3y
Very meta
someguy3@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 3y
Meta^2^