Scan QR for price is the same as “call for quote”… if you feel the need to conceal your prices then they are obviously not good, I won’t waste my time confirming the obvious and simply go elsewhere.

AP does push the data load onto volunteers (the operators of servers) but those volunteers gain some autonomy in doing so. The important part of that quoted segment is that bluesky has distributed the costs but not the authority, in other words taxation without representation.