Mike Masnick ✅Jul 6, 2023
This is dumber than even I could have predicted. https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threatening-to-sue-meta-over-threads
Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads | Semafor

The threat suggests that Threads is the most serious rival yet to Elon Musk's chaotic social platform.

Show threadErin Conroy

@mmasnick

#Bluesky, which directly competes with Twitter, has hired Twitter employees & all 3 Board members worked at Twitter. Bluesky has plainly been using Twitter IP, trade secrets & confidential information to accelerate its development. The attraction to its users is that it is basically a copycat clone of Twitter - but Musk has never made a peep about it. And never will.

That should tell perceptive journalists & observers something very important about Bluesky

Jul 6, 2023 at 7:56pmWeb
Show threadJames ScholesJul 6, 2023
@chargrille @mmasnick I agree, but perhaps you could dispense with the critical thinking elitism, and educate those who haven't worked out what you have?
Show threadErin ConroyJul 6, 2023

@jscholes @mmasnick

I'm mainly talking about the tech press, but I'll edit that to clarify, thanks.

Show threadErin ConroyJul 6, 2023

@mmasnick

In this context, it should also be noticed that Bluesky is the only competing platform that Musk has never tried to ban, or used his unilateral power at Twitter against (to try to stop Twiitter users from encouraging other users to switch to it).

I would expect tech journalists on this beat to explicitly note this for their readers but I'm not sure that I've ever seen it.

Show threadEdolisJul 6, 2023
@chargrille @mmasnick Someone might think he is using twitter to feed his silkworm, and meta is trying to prey upon it while in the cocoon. Cool.
Just because twitter is too complex for reshaping at his whim.
Show threadtrinigodJul 7, 2023
@chargrille has bluesky really been plainly using twitter ip etc?
Show threadErin ConroyJul 7, 2023

@trinigod

I would be absolutely gobsmacked if they had not. The key Bluesky people, including Dorsey & Twitter project lead-turned-CEO Graber, were deeply exposed to Twitter’s inner workings & code & tech strategies & algorithms from 2019 to 2022. Dorsey probably through the present day. Regardless, any claim that could be drafted vs Facebook could be alleged against Bluesky just as plausibly, if not more so.

Show threadTechmanJul 9, 2023
@chargrille @trinigod I accept your point about him not responding to Bluesky but given that he spent $44Billion on Twitter I can’t see any plus side to him supporting Bluesky
Show threadErin ConroyJul 9, 2023

@Nigel_g

#Bluesky was invented as a protocol for Twitter.

To transition Twitter to a platform where they could monetize eyeballs & rage farming, while plausibly telling congressional hearings on disinformation campaigns that they *couldn't* deplatform or ban Nazis.

Jack has many times said he thought it was the wrong decision for society to ban Trump from twitter for inciting violence *during the Jan 2021 coup*.

Nazi content stays on Twitter & proliferates. That's the plus side.
@trinigod

Show threadTechmanJul 9, 2023
@chargrille @trinigod Thanks, I had thought it was an alternative to Twitter started by Jack Dempsey