Honestly, I can't really support Elon for his actions because he was the person to fire these people and these people need a way to survive. I don't think Threads is that similar to Twitter and there are going to be some similarities. It's just that the backbone of threads is Instagram and there are enough differences. I just have a feeling that it's just a war because Elon wants to make Twitter profitable and he wants to take out competition.
Threads is truly not similar to Twitter, but Elon Musk give Mark Zuckerberg the opportunity to capitalise on the bad PR. THIS IS WHY PEOPLE SEE IT AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Originally they shouldn't even be competing. However sukeban jumped on the trend and was quick to provide people an alternative when it seemed everything wasn't going well with Twitter.
That is definitely one way to look at things. Threads right now barely has anything useful to people and I don't think it is an alternative yet. Twitter has been going downhill for a while and I wonder what Elon plans to do.