You are missing the "now" in the parent comment. They are talking about actions in the last year or so. Meta's open source projects that they own are maintain

You are missing the "now" in the parent comment. They are talking about actions in the last year or so. Meta's open source projects that they own are maintained now by eager volunteers, not staff. Anybody could see how Facebook is floundering, Instagram can see the iceberg approaching, and changing anything major in Whatsapp will piss off literally billions of people. They've cornered themselves, so now they're reaching for literally anything that could save them. That seems reasonable as a failing company, except when every action they make affects entire markets and legitimizes trends on a very shaky basis.