@rotfarm@eldritch.cafe @dysfun@treehouse.systems Assuming you mean the fedi thing: quite possibly. Alternatively it may be a more 'boring' EEE in that they try to convince people to run their specific stack that's tied to their specific infrastructure so that they cannot migrate. Or both.

Either way, it's a near-certainty that the intention is to monopolize control over the fediverse, because that is exactly what Cloudflare has been doing with ~every decentralized system for the past decade, including the internet as a whole.

As for the registrar service: yes, that was almost certainly their intention. It's the only plausible explanation for the misleading marketing that they used to pitch it initially - going all "look at how extortionate existing registrars are, we are here to save you from them", and then only comparing to the particularly expensive ones, and not the ones that only had a negligible fee beyond registry cost.