The scam is that they undermine the actually viable platforms by offering something that is literally too good to be true. Then when all their competitors are dead their store will go to shit and you won’t have an alternative. When the time comes, you will wish you’d spent some money on a real store rather than play for free on theirs. See enshittification.

This is very common among big tech companies and we should start treating it as what it is, a scam.

Assuming that the account mentioned in the linked dev update post is the one that commented underneath it

To be clear, this is the part I’m asking about.

I see. So do we have any evidence at all that this is even the same person?

If you go to the profile, the handle is @CannotSleep420. Why is it different to the username? I didn’t even know that’s a thing.