While I have to apologize for not being able to provide you with any help for the problem at hand I just wanted to note that if you open up identical public threads via a reddit account and via a lemmy account at the same time then those two accounts are then, for data analysis purposes, connected for all eternity. You might as well not bother using different nicknames.
If that isn’t a concern to you then just ignore my ramblings.

Would you answer the same way if somebody asked you a question during a real-world conversation? If not, why?

Unless it can natively run all the existing ready-to-go Pi images and software packages and will also receive community support when I ask for help in a Pi-adjacent forum it's not really going to be a competitor to the Pi. The hardware is pretty much irrelevant.

Privacy sentiments are subjective beliefs, not an objective fact like nature.

I genuinely don’t see a point in engaging with you, even just based on what I stated above where you use your personal beliefs in line with objective, provable elements of the natural world. So I’ll choose not to. Cheers. 👍

While I obviously cannot force you to continue a conversation you do not wish to have, I'm a bit perplexed by what you're saying here and at what point "belief" entered the conversation. If you're saying that data, personal and otherwise, has no real, objective, provable value then surely that would go against all physical evidence? There must be some kind of misunderstanding here. Well, cheers ✋

Is that just something that's intrinsically missing from some distros due to technical constraints or is it a regular type of feature the simply hasn't been implemented (yet) due to… human constraints?

I wouldn’t mind you finding out any information about me. I would mind you feeling entitled to me putting in effort and time to answer you. I’ve read all the suggestions people here posted and none made me reflect or get anywhere near changing my mind. Privacy centric people just have to accept not everyone is like them. I respect your need for privacy. I don’t understand why you obsessively require me to hold the same belief.

I don't think anyone requires you to hold any specific beliefs, nobody within this comment chain anyway.

It's a bit akin to meeting someone on the street and being told "It's nighttime!" while the sun is out. I'd definitely be interested in understanding why that other person considers it to be nighttime and I would at the very least be disappointed not to get a conversation out of it.

Three different fictitious requests:

1. "Can you spare some change?"
2. "Would you let me skip ahead of the queue please? I have an urgent appointment later on."
3. "Will you let us share your user data with our partners in order to improve our services?"

I'm assuming here - and please correct me if I am wrong - that you would be likely to acquiesce to 3. in most contexts, maybe even more likely than to acquiesce to 1. or 2.?

You unfortunately can’t teach something like this to someone who doesn’t even understand the consequences of it. Or care.

You can absolutely explain it and teach it and make people care. It's just not easy. I've only ever encountered uninformed "I have nothing to hide"-responses to equally lackluster throwaway explanations . It's a very difficult and abstract topic, it doesn't come naturally! Don't treat privacy concerns as equivalent to pointing out dirt on someone's clothes, treat it like calculus. Successfully conveying it requires time, conversation and didactics.

I am literally this. Just let us be tbh.

Are you absolutely sure that you flat-out "don't have anything to hide" and would readily and truthfully furnish me with every information I asked of you? :P

Most important to me: Which of them is easier to self-host?

I've been running a Mumble server for my friends for over a decade now and I'd like… something more without having to get too technical. Mumble is literally just a single apt-get and you're basically done, so that's about the level of technical expertise that I bring to the table. I've tentatively looked into other solutions over the years but I always feel my attention drifting when the setup-tutorial covers multiple pages and starts with manually configuring some database or certificate authority or whatever. Sorry, I didn't mean for this to get too ranty.

That’s an impressive project indeed.

And here all I can cynically think is “Great, finally a way to make the FP4 a bit more unwieldy and hard to hold with small hands, that had always been way too easy before!”

Do you get a public IP with Starlink?

Aves is great!