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submitted 1 year ago by BrikoX@vlemmy.net to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

cross-posted from: https://vlemmy.net/post/553347

Alternative title: Musk’s X Corp. threatens to sue Meta over Twitter “copycat” Threads

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[-] Tosti@feddit.nl 58 points 1 year ago
[-] Goun@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

It's finally happening! We did it, Lemmy!

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Hoping they settle this in the ring.

[-] mytornadoisresting@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

Awesome. They can stay busy fighting each other while we happily go on without them over here on the fediverse.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm just worried this could result in a ruling that will fuck up the fediverse somehow.

[-] kartonrealista@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Eh, I don't think any one company can own the concept of microblogging. If Twitter and Tumblr both existed for a long time and there were no lawsuits then this is just a nothing burger, no?

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

In any sane world, yeah almost definitely.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Never discount the possibility of American courts deciding something which is horribly damaging for the world of technology.

[-] noodles@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

yeah, this feels like a walking advertisement for the fediverse.

[-] maino82@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 year ago

Spiro's letter complains about Meta hiring some of the many workers who were laid off or resigned from Twitter in the eight months since Musk bought the company.

"Over the past year, Meta has hired dozens of former Twitter employees... these employees had and continue to have access to Twitter's trade secrets and other highly confidential information," Spiro wrote in the letter to Zuckerberg. The workers, he alleged, "owe ongoing obligations to Twitter," and many "have improperly retained Twitter documents and electronic devices."

"We fired a bunch of people and you hired them to build the same thing they built for us! Not fair not fair!"

[-] dvlsg@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

The workers, he alleged, “owe ongoing obligations to Twitter,”

What a strange argument. If I work for someone, and they fire me, I still have ongoing obligations to them?

Great, I'll expect my paycheck to be deposited as usual, then.

[-] kofe@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I'm curious if it's referring to NDAs maybe? That would imply some form of obligation to maintain secrets I guess. Otherwise yeah, makes no sense to me

[-] totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Funny story - many paycheques were not, in fact, deposited.

[-] Raphael@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

I'm rooting for a long drawn out fight.

Wait.... that sounded really american, didn't it. Maybe I should ship lawyers to both sides.

[-] Disgustoid@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago

I can't believe I'm rooting for Zuckerberg over that walking shitstain Musk here. WTAF.

[-] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

It does feel weird.

[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It's like watching two people you hate fight, Wait it's actually exactly that.
Anyway, I'm not rooting for anyone to win, I just want to see a good bloody match where both sides get some good hits in and lose some teeth.

[-] totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Imagine my disappointment that this does not appear to be the slap fight originally proposed, just in a courtroom. Legal battle booooring.

[-] DECOYpol@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

....let them fight.

[-] twistedtxb@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
[-] MarioBarisa@vlemmy.net 7 points 1 year ago

They are like kids

[-] Cl249099@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, I'm all for this 🍿

Everyone's a winner! So long as they're in the spectator area.

[-] harry_assman@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Two wiener kids having a pissing contest on an electric fence.

[-] answersplease77@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Was Threads behind Twitter's login close off and server attack or whatever the heck happened to it? It completely killed Twitter

[-] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, many suspect that’s caused by Musk not paying his Google cloud bill and his services being downgraded as the first step Google takes when they want a customer to pay them.

Musk put up the login only view of Twitter and immediately caused Twitter’s own DDoS because that screen would keep trying to load tweets even though it couldn’t, repeatedly and very quickly.

Musk also blamed this action on data scrapers, but people see the timing of this as too coincidental for it not to be the Google cloud thing.

Musk also backed off when he realized Twitter was disappearing from Google as it could no longer index Tweets.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

So maybe this is why they used ActivityPub. Plausible deniability and accelerated development. Maybe this has nothing to do with the Fediverse. 🤔

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 year ago

Really, the only way X Corp. has any way to get Meta to stop would be on anti-trust grounds, which would be hilarious.

[-] lemmyshmemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Tired of hearing about both of them, especially Musk. Like Trump, he wants and uses the negative attention.

[-] lasagna@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Imagine how hilarious it would be to see Musk calling Zuck a pedo.

[-] w00master@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Elon has nothing on this. I’m not rooting for either but this threat doesn’t have much legs.

[-] taanegl@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

If this is a way for Musk to dodge getting his ass beat by Zuckerbot 3000 at the coleseum he's got another thing coming.

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