It's on! - Lemmy.world

I hope they take each other down.
why
A lost Lemming?
The @ thing is Threads, Facebook’s Twitter clone
Because threads is just facebook and facebook is garbage as it is. It doesn’t help that they have no respect for people’s privacy.
Thing is that Threads plans to be able to connect to the fediverse as a whole. So who knows what the future holds for Mastodon.
I would see it to believe it
Once they get enough users, they’ll probably get rid of the Fediverse part of threads and make it just threads
Who does the black logo represents

“Threads,” the new corporate Twitterlike by the same dbag techbro oligarchs who own Facebook and Instagram.

Apparently Twitter is threatening to sue them for hiring up all the coders that Musk was stupid enough to fire.

Do you habe a source for that? I would have thought Meta has more than enough software engineers for a simple app like this. For all the hard parts about a social media they are already experts with FB and Instagram. Lol

arstechnica.com/…/musk-and-zuck-may-fight-in-cour…

Right here you can read about the potential lawsuit against threads.

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

X Corp. claims Meta used Twitter trade secrets and ex-employees to build Threads.

Ars Technica
I believe 9to5mac and others have written as well about this topic
Twitter Threatens To Sue Meta Over Threads - Slashdot

Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based "Twitter killer" platform, accusing the social media giant of poaching former employees to create a "copycat" application. Semafor: On Wednesday, Instagram parent company Meta introduced Threads, a text-based companion to Insta...

Lmao. That’s amazing
Would be better with a fediverse logo.
Is that the official threads logo? Damn, that thing is so ugly! Should be an official dictionary definition of overdesigned!
Looks like a boomer tried to handwrite an @ sign.