>>92600689When the trial period ends your account is literally locked out of any non-free service unless you manually go into your account settings and allow paid services.
The card is only to ensure you’re an actual person and not a bot.
The actual catch is only that they’re pretty trigger-happy when it comes to shutting down your instance and banning your account at the slightest whiff of suspicious activity.
I’m using the free instance to host some personal services (Nextcloud, Plex, some *arrs, transmission/sabnzbd) and it works really well, but I have my entire setup mirrored daily to an actual physical server I keep at home so I don’t get fucked if they suddenly decide to shut my shit down.