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Welcome to your new side project.

It's good that developers are starting to think seriously about who they want their work to benefit.

We need a license that excludes use by user data harvesting companies, such as Google and Facebook. Even if not legally enforceable, it could make a difference, by clearly dividing between good and bad.

That would make it a nonfree license, but I would use an MIT like license that does this for some projects.

Many of those companies, including Google, allow GPL and LGPL and absolutely avoid AGPL because it applies to network services.

Now you know.

If you're running an instance on your own server and not distributing binaries, you can treat the GPL like the MIT licence.

The GPL's copyleft terms only kick in when you redistribute the software. Allowing other people to run the software remotely doesn't count.

(This is my understanding; do check for yourself.)

Yeah, that's the biggest difference between GPL and AGPL