They explicitly explained that the problem was not "they find seeing the text for a couple seconds too annoying to use codeberg". Codeberg offered to remove that for them so they'd never see it again. So idk why you're asking about that. Whatever the problem is, it must be something other than that, since that problem doesn't even exist.

The problem is blocking or speed-bumping users in general, everyone else besides themselves.

They didn't put things on a public hosting site for them to be hidden or obfuscated or even to have a tiny friction inserted between a user and that user discovering their stuff, or following a link to something.

Saying "2 seconds" as though that makes it insignificant is completely missing the point. 0.2 seconds, if it's 0.2 more than some other path is the same as a total block. Having a link to something do anything at all other than instantly provide that thing is outrageous and unacceptable, if you care about the experience you want to present to your users or audience.

(Still, I'd say codeberg was at least among the best options if you want someone else to host it for you. The bad job of providing a bad experience for legit users while trying to block AI scrapers can be true at the same time as no one else is doing any better without some other worse strings attached like github.)