So, everything you mentioned are reasons I’ve heard for people to switch from GitHub to GitLab, which is why I explicitly mentioned them both in the question.
So far no one has given me any advantage specific to codeberg. (Keeping in mind that GitLab is already open source, self-hosted, and federated via ActivityPub).
What exactly is the advantage of codeberg over gitlab and github? People just say “miscellaneous privacy benefits”
Yeah, at that point I feel like using vanilla chromium would give you a better experience.
Also Kagi has a fediverse lens
I’ll just leave this here:
I remember hearing something about requiring a multi million dollar deposit or something that made it infeasible for all but the largest of tech companies.
It really doesn’t. My girlfriend needed to enable the Japanese keyboard on Kubuntu. That required half an hour of searching documentation and forum posts about how to install/enable FCITX5, then another hour debugging to find out it doesn’t work on apps installed via snap.
I still haven’t been able to come up with a KDE based distro (because it’s way more familiar to Windows users) that actually meets the needs of non technical users.
We don’t have corporations manipulating our feeds
yet. Once we have enough users that it’s worth their effort to target, the bullshit will absolutely come.
Kid who’s already maintaining production software definitely won’t peak in high school.
Heh, you didn’t witness the old web UI that used sockets. It was nigh unusable on popular servers.
Nah, you can build algorithms that make depressed teenagers with little to no tracking. Especially if they can train said algorithms from data they already have from the rest of the world.