Date as in: looking forward to meet you. And yes, the main objective is to support hacking and learning together - so the project only has to write black numbers, not make huge profits
There are no official ties between Alpine Linux and ungleich.ch.
We at ungleich are simple people liking simple systems. And we think it is important to support systems that are not mainstream.
Simplicity mostly. It just works. It feels so clean, nothing running there that is not supposed to be there. Installing something takes only sub-seconds, because packages are small.
I think the main problem is not the init process, but the tooling around it that breaks systems. For instance systemd-resolved did break local resolving some years ago (maybe still today).
While it is optional, ubuntu installations come with it turned on by default.
That would work. DoH is "just" a replacement for UDP in this context. However when Mozilla changes the default to DoH of Cloudflare, you will need to manually change all firefox installations.