Exactly. Another case where this happens is with credit/point based systems for things like settlement/citizenship that effectively allows governments to discriminate freely based on vague criteria.

https://en.liberapay.com/explore/recipients largest is Librepay. Second largest is "infosec.exchange" Mastodon instance.

The article doesn't mention rust-analyzer (the language server), I wonder how much of this infrastructure is also used by rust-analyzer?