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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I might be pretty ignorant here but what is so proprietary about Twitter/Threads? It just lets people make public status updates and share photos. Unless they literally used the same lines of code, how is it infringement and trade secrets?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

It's really not. Not to mention, like someone else said, Meta has said that they don't even have any former Twitter employees on their engineering team for Threads.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's easy to make a website that lets random users post whatever they want and then display it in a feed. You could teach a novice how to do it in a weekend. Building a site that can scale to millions of users pretty much overnight is where the secret sauce is.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

You mean a site like Facebook or Instagram?