Twitter is far too entrenched with hundreds of million users on a global level to be taken down by a start-up.
Wouldn’t Musk have made these guys sign non-compete agreements as part of his buy out?
A forensic audit of the source code would probably show that much of it was lifted directly from Twitter e.g. stolen.
Good, maybe all the censorship nazis can stay over there.
There have been free open source Twitter “clone” scripts out for a long time. So making a site just like Twitter has been easy to do for anyone who has web hosting. The difference here is he is apparently using P2P protocol so that it is decentralized. Looks like it will be supported by the member’s machines as both clients and server nodes. This is actually a good direction to move in our current internet environment. The security and privacy cannot be beat. I am currently working on a P2P system myself right now.
https://www.lifewire.com/p2p-networking-and-software-818019
More appropriately named “Redsky”. Or “Comrade Watching what you type-sky”
“Commie Connect”...?
“Commie 2 Commie”...?
“I can’t believe its not Censorship”...?
Guys Jack is the former CEO of Twitter. He wouldn’t have been writing the code, but if any of his employees at the NEW place were at the OLD one. THAT might be something, but this story talks about it being JACK’S company.
So, no non-competes, or stolen code for him.
Competition is good. Monopoly is bad, even when the monopolist is someone you like.
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