"Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."

We are on step 2: then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers.

matthewmacleod 6 days ago | parent [-]

It is not abuse to charge what amounts to a relatively small fee for a useful service.

	▲	some_furry 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		It's not "a relatively small fee for a useful service". It's an unnecessary fee to use self-hosted (i.e., not GitHub-hosted) components in CI pipelines.