this post was submitted on 11 May 2024
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This is part one of enshittification: You give your service away to get users, and cater to their wishes. Then once they're hooked you can do whatever you want because they can't leave.
Just more technofeudalism from a technofeudalist.
it's more insidious: it's not giving it away. it's subverting the "hmm UBI is good actually" argument and saying that people should receive compute instead of money, with a quiet "oh and naturally someone will have to pay us for providing them that compute"
not that I'd bet against them pulling a lock-in move down the line as well (or upsells or any number of other exploitation plays), mind you