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I'm curious what exactly X is claiming Meta stole? The interface and interaction model is basically just social media best practices that have been evolved by n
by chasing 3y ago
I'm curious what exactly X is claiming Meta stole? The interface and interaction model is basically just social media best practices that have been evolved by numerous people and companies over the past 20-30 years. Seemingly nothing so complex that it needs to be stolen from another company. Barely any art assets. Dirt-simple interfaces.
Under-the-hood, I assume Meta was able to launch this quickly because it's largely built on existing tech.
Anyway, sounds petty and short-sighted. So. Totally on-brand!
- renegade-otter 3y agoThreads are Instagram-compatible. It's literally probably Instagram code, heavily modified. Threads is written in Python, and Instagram is largely a Python monolith.
- throwaway844 3y agoI recall this past winter when Elon claimed that Twitter’s tech was so bad it needed a “complete and total rewrite.” https://twitter.com/goldman/status/1605438532260048896?lang=en https://twitter.com/goldman/status/1605438532260048896?lang=... Whatever Meta did or didn’t steal, sounds like he shouldn’t consider it particularly advantageous anyway /s
- appleflaxen 3y agoThat's an incredible point! IANAL but it seems like a compelling defense.
- plorg 3y agoI would imagine a majority of hours on this were product managers doing evaluation rather than engineers writing code. Even if those PMs came from Twitter I can't imagine their insights being particularly proprietary.