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by jewel 817 days ago
I've heard it called "Platform risk". Also "Playing in someone else's walled garden", or something along those lines. I realize that's not a term for the inevitable rugpull, but that's the closest I can think of.
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Building your castle in someone else's kingdom.
And obviously the Germans have a word and a law for it: Erbpacht (https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erbpacht)
Translates as “emphyteusis”, a word I’d never heard of before.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emphyteusis

Building your mobile home on rented land.
You live on that platform, you die on that platform.