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 2 years ago (1 children)

In any sane world, yeah almost definitely.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] noodles@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] maino82@lemmy.ca 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago (2 children)

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 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] Raphael@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years 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.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago

An expensive legal campaign is yet another excuse for Twitter to go bankrupt that ignores the fact that the leveraged buyout was already a death sentence - like almost every other.

[–] Disgustoid@startrek.website 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

It does feel weird.

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years 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 13 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

....let them fight.

[–] Cl249099@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait. No. Stop... Anyway

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, I'm all for this 🍿

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

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

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

[–] twistedtxb@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

[–] harry_assman@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

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

[–] MarioBarisa@vlemmy.net 7 points 2 years ago

They are like kids

[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

No, that was from either Twitter DDOSing itself, or getting rate limited because they refused to pay for hosting services.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 years 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.

[–] lasagna@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] w00master@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years 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 2 years 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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