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   Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 04:58:37 JST Mike Masnick ✅

   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

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     Erin Conroy (chargrille@progressives.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 04:58:36 JST Erin Conroy

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     @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 anyone who has a neuron dedicated to critical thinking, something very important about Bluesky.

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     Erin Conroy (chargrille@progressives.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 05:11:39 JST Erin Conroy

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     @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 people from encouraging Twitter 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.

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     Erin Conroy (chargrille@progressives.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 05:14:48 JST Erin Conroy

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     @jscholes @mmasnick

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

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     James Scholes (jscholes@dragonscave.space)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 05:14:49 JST James Scholes

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     • Erin Conroy

     @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?

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     trinigod (trinigod@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 10:35:45 JST trinigod

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     • Erin Conroy

     @chargrille has bluesky really been plainly using twitter ip etc?

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     Erin Conroy (chargrille@progressives.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 10:35:45 JST Erin Conroy

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     @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.

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     Erin Conroy (chargrille@progressives.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 06:20:03 JST Erin Conroy

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     @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 from Twitter.

     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*.

     That's the plus side.

     @trinigod

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     Techman (nigel_g@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 06:20:05 JST Techman

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     • trinigod

     @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