There’s just something fucking hilarious about laying off employees, mocking them, and being sued for improperly firing them – and then whining that your competitor hired them and that they have access to Twitter information still.
I believe this fits well under the “fuck around and find out” doctrine.
I love how companies can be like “you can’t have those people they belong to me”. And that’s somehow normal.
That’s how corporations view us peasants. As their property that they are entitled too.
We expected anything else from the man whose inherited wealth was literally produced by slaves? He’s incapable of considering “employees” anything but property.
Here is an analysis of twitter’s legal letter by a litigation lawyer.
tldr: letter is weak
This confirms what everybody has been saying: this letter is just a PR stunt.
Elon Musk’s entire existence is a PR stunt. After all, they already fired their marketing department.
I mean Elon fired so many where did he expect them to go 🥴
Wait, so Elon doesn’t want the people he fired, but he also doesn’t like it when they move to the competition? Is this guy fucking ret*rded or something?
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He’s surprised because he told his managers to “kill half the staff.” They assumed he meant lay them off.
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Elon didn’t need any extra help running Twitter into the ground, but it’s already too late to put the genie back in the bottle, Threads is already going to take over, and it’s honestly 1 solid update with added features away from absolutely decimating Twitter.
I would’ve preferred more people migrate to Mastadon, but that’s over, any momentum that may have had will be sucked away by Threads until they screw up, hopefully by then Mastadon will be in a better position to capitalize on user dissent.
One solid update, and a good desktop version of Threads and Twitter is done for, especially if a Threads API comes out and third party devs make apps as well.
Threads is federated. So even if Threads absolutely takes over the microblogging market, that doesn’t kill Mastodon. Instead it guarantees the long term viability of Mastodon.
At least that is my naive hope.
Agree that’s my hope, that it takes the whole idea of the Fediverse into the mainstream, and that it will live on no matter what happens to Mastodon.
That hope is indeed naive. If you want to see what threat Threads poses, look at how Google killed XMPP.
On the other hand, google didn’t kill smtp with Gmail.
First of all, SMTP was much more well-established before Google came along than XMPP was.
Second, from what I’ve heard, Gmail (and other big players like Hotmail etc.) did have a substantial detrimental effect on the proverbial “little guy’s” ability to self-host email… at least if he wants outbound messages to actually be delivered instead of blocked, anyway.
Musk is being an immature crybaby again, but there’s a certain pattern of Facebook/Meta hiring execs who used to work on competing products only to gain an insight perspective on their competitors’ plans by milking them for insider information.
They did the same when Google+ launched.
This is the funniest thing I’ve read in ages. Bring on the cage fight!!
