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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?

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[-] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

It seems like it's just Elon throwing a big old man baby fit.

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

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.

[-] alex@geddit.social 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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

Good point.

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

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.

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

This looks like the fight between elon and mark they were talking about.

[-] BNE@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, damn - that cage match would have been one hell of a pay-per-view.

What a weird corporate hellscape we inhabit, lol.

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