That's a symptom of a couple of things.
1. A disconnect between how lawyers think and how the rest of us think.
2. People seeing conspiracies in things they don't want to understand.

The first one I don't know how to solve (if it can be solved). The second one can't be solved.

You just described the clause that's being talked about (because content will require modification to ensure consistent display across platforms).

Yes Musk has done a lot of harm. But picking on clauses like this that are standard across social media platforms is just giving ammo to his defenders.

And even now it allows for modification to make sure content displays properly across desktop and mobile.

Remember how a licence does not equate to ownership on digital stores? Same thing here. The social media platforms may have a licence to the content but they don't own it.

Because it also allows for the expansion to new platforms (Instagram's "Reels on TV" Fire TV app experiment for example).

@mmasnick.bsky.social Didn't Techdirt have an article explaining this clause a while back?

Yes. Even BlueSky has this clause. In addition to allowing for the embedding of content in websites, it also allows for displaying on multiple formats - both current and future.

And it's also to allow for the embedding of content into other sites - a news article embedding a specific post for example.

All social media platforms have that clause. It's to allow for embedding in sites (like how a news article would embed a particular post for example).

It's not the nefarious bogeyman far too many think it is.

Uhh....the "perpetual content licence" thing is common across the board. It's how platforms allow sites to embed their content without getting into copyright trouble (specific posts for a news article, a feed of a specific account on the homepage of the account holder's website, etc).

It actually benefits me to keep them locked - I won't be able to see any DM scams.

Well fucking done @bsky.app.

At this point, it's best to assume all workplaces are shitty until proven otherwise.

I was going to suggest mass account deletion as a course of action but there are probably games on the Epic Games Store that can't be bought elsewhere and it would cause issues with other games outside of Epic that use Epic Online Services.

Needless to say, I never bothered with Fortnite anyway.

That this reaction could be in response to so many different things says a lot.

It always was.