Heck, GH Stars are used as a vanity metric for a lot of projects.
Soooo...
Let me preface this by saying this is an old (so things are different) anecdote (which is not the singular of data), but...
a) I had never heard of codeberg.
b) My company used an on-prem gitlab instance, and it sucked donkey dicks.
For example, the equivalent of just putting a statically generated site into github pages required running a fucking production pipe.
You should make the easy things easy and the hard things possible. Making the easy things hard is an immediate red flag.
> The problem is the inertia.
Oh, don't worry about that. Github is working diligently to fix that problem. The question is, are the alternatives worthwhile?
Pitching them as a no-brain replacement and advising people to move all their personal repos over is abusive towards Codeberg.
For community-facing FLOSS it is good. For other uses you need to look elsewhere. Forgejo, which is what Codeberg ises, is easy to self-host and other providers exist.
https://sr.ht is more open and has paid options.