FaceDeer

Then he does have an account on their products.

This relies on a zero-sum view of the world, which is unfortunately common but isn't necessarily so.

How are they getting that up-to-date info?

If your fingers are crossed when you check the "I Agree" box on their TOS then the terms are legally reversed and you control Meta's content rather than the other way around. It's in the Magna Carta.

Those adorable baby photos you posted for your friends and family? Sorry, they’re Meta’s now.

You literally gave them to Meta. You uploaded them to Meta after agreeing to Meta's terms of service, which essentially say "we can do what we want with the stuff you give us." Big Bad Meta isn't sneaking into your houses and stealing photos off of your nightstand, they're not "seizing" anything.

Also, Meta's AI "pipe dream" has so far been very successful. Their open-source libraries and LLaMA models have become industry standards. Their future work is likely to be productive.

The article's paywalled, but presumably they're talking to active developers and people who run large instances.

Oh, be assured that threads will one day defederate and build a wall so you can’t access their content anymore.

Isn't that already the case? The Fediverse is doing fine under current circumstances.

calm the fuck down

What, and miss out on the delicious dopamine that comes from being part of a mob gripped by righteous anger? This is a chance to be mad at the same thing that everyone else is mad at, risk-free.

"Slamming" has definitely been enshittified.

Better art and poetry than most humans can produce.

I'm not talking about the article specifically, just a general class of reaction I've seen.

And yet it's writing poetry and painting pictures. That makes it worse, doesn't it? Turns out you don't have to be very intelligent to do those things.