Given that threads is aping Mastodon, could they come after front ends here? Or is this just megacorp slap fighting/ an unexpected (but maybe predictable) outcome of the Twitter staff purges?
This looks like the fight between elon and mark they were talking about.
Yeah, damn - that cage match would have been one hell of a pay-per-view.
What a weird corporate hellscape we inhabit, lol.
I see no foundation in this supposed process, precisely because treads is using fediverse. The software is opensource and existed before musk went down on twitter. This is just another one of musk’s great moves showing the competition the size of his desperation
You could’ve ended that sentence with another word and it would still be accurate.
And that’s all I’m sayin’.
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It seems like it’s just Elon throwing a big old man baby fit.
It’s due to Meta hiring a bunch of the ex-Twitter employees Elon screwed over.
Mastodon didn’t do that, so isn’t in his crosshairs.
Just a suggestion, you might want to insert the word “allegedly” somewhere in there because Meta is refuting that assertion.
“To be clear: ‘No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing” - Andy Stone, Meta’s communications director
edit: yes I know that doesn’t preclude the possibility of Meta hiring former Twitter employees and not making them part of the Threads team.
Obviously a good thing to keep the “allegedly”, but that statement doesn’t refute what the other person claimed. They said Meta hired them, not Meta put them in the Threads team.
Also I obviously don’t know how Meta is structured, but where I’m at, it wouldn’t be unusual for someone not part of a team to still talk to members of a team, give advice, etc.
Good point.
