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.

How would you get the other party’s public key?

I’ll just leave this here:

Salad theory

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.

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.

Yes.

https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

If your plan is to leave anyway, they have no leverage over you. I’m curious why you didn’t keep your sub private.

Soylent?

Should be available at most grocery stores