Even if Meta had hired ex-Twitter employees, is Musk really going to go to court to enforce those employee contracts that he’s currently in violation of, even walking away from their own arbitration?
Meta had so many acquisitions and shelved projects related to Twitter-like stuff already. They didn’t need to steal Twitter’s secret sauce.
Are there any Bay Area lawyers who are not either suing Elon Musk or being employed by Elon Musk to sue someone else.
It can only be a matter of time before (in a stroke of 5D chess brilliance) he sues himself.
If they did hire former Twitter employees, they could assign them to roles that could build on their experience at Twitter. For example, perhaps some back end infrastructure (*) that Threads could use but did not actually do Threads actions. You could hire the Twitter folks to do that and then move internal FB, Instagram, etc folks to work directly on Threads. That may clear up any issues with secrets or non-compete. Also, non-competes are much harder to enforce these days - probably even more so when you publicly fire people during tantrum fits.
“It is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter than to indulge in the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram.”
Internet bullying has a body count. It’s responsible for suicides and a lot of misery. Such an asshole to think that’s a feature, and not a virulent lethal bug.
Keeping with the progression of names, I hereby dub the vessel for this aforementioned cage fight to be the “Tit”.
That’s disappointing. I didn’t really want to join threads, but was hoping it’d be better moderated and might eventually provide some of the localized news/event info I previously looked to twitter for.
Musk accusing Facebook of “hide the pain”… Okay.
Why would anyone ever expect anything else? It’s not as though Facebook or Instagram had sterling reputations for being fairly moderated. All major social media platforms have a horrible history of treating the alt-right with kid gloves while mercilessly punishing progressives, vulnerable populations, artists and activists. I’m deeply disappointed that so many people think that because Musk is bad Zuckerberg must be good, when he’s already proven otherwise. It’s like leaving a Nazi rally to attend a KKK rally and being shocked, SHOCKED, that it’s still full of bigoted assholes.
it would obviously be better if the platform rules would allow for better moderation of hate like that, but a person can block people on threads. Better not give certain flames the oxygen of engagement…
Happy BB Birthday, fellow Happy Mutant!
Wait, are we suggesting that Twitter would have handled that situation better? Surely not.
If I am somehow forced to choose only between Bluesky, Meta and Twitter’s moderation teams as my source of protection (and thank the Maker that’s not the only choice we have), I’m going to choose Meta’s team over the eviscerated, downtrodden mess that is Twitter all day, or Bluesky’s myopic view that hate isn’t really a problem.
I mean, “moderation better than Twitter” is a pretty low bar to meet there, but they are undoubtedly going to meet at least that. And ultimately, I think that is what will win over the masses vs, say, the libertarian direction BlueSky is going.
I personally hope they hurry up and federate already so that the very many people I would like to follow who aren’t ever going to move to Mastodon I can follow on Mastodon 
That’ll be the best of all worlds; threads just becomes another server at that point, I can instead rely on my Mastodon’t server and their moderation policy and ignore everything else.
I’m not sure “when he is faced with a real fight” is necessary here
Do you run your own server? I’ve seen plenty of comments that a bunch will defederate threads, and some saying they’ll defederate anyone that federates with threads.
70 million by second day.
Won’t matter. Enough will federate, and the great thing about ActivityPub is you can just switch servers and keep all your follows/followers. Restrictive mastodon instances are fighting a losing battle there, the only people who will stay on the self-censored instances will be people who wanted a self-censored world anyway - which is fine! I mean small communities are great, hello BBS! - but it’s going to have zero impact on Mastodon federating with other social media sites in the long run, as was the original intention of the protocol in the first place.
If they haven’t hired some of their content moderation team and customer (advertiser) support team they are both mad and stupid.
Oh no, not what I intended at all. Twitter’s a mess and is dead to me. I had just hoped that Threads would handle attacks on the LGBT community better. Maybe it will improve.
