Twitter threatens to sue Meta over launch of rival Threads app
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In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a lawyer for the Elon Musk-owned app said Meta had unlawfully misappropriated trade secrets
  • Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Aha. This may be why Threads is based on ActivityPub - a way to prevent accusations of it being a Twitter clone. It’s just an innocent member of the Fediverse. ;)

    • OldFartPhil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yep. Being a part of the fediverse gives Meta a defensible argument that (1) they are not stealing Twitter’s intellectual property as Mastodon already exists and (2) they are not monopolizing the Twitter-like social media environment as any of their users could move to Mastodon if they wanted to.

  • Jaysyn@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I have a feeling Twitter is about to regret not going after Truth Social, it being a near direct rip-off of Twitter.