[tavavex]

But they could implement it without buying Moltbook. Easily. They have the money and the engineers to make it happen a hundred times over. Something like it already might be on Facebook.

To me, this feels more like acquiring the name. Everyone's heard that 'trademark' so they want to have it so they could reuse it for whatever they make later.

[disqard]

Your comment made me think of something: this might be Meta buying it to kill it off.

[Ifkaluva]

Kill off what? Anybody can vibe code it

[jmcqk6]

They saw a social network full of bots and didn't want the competition.