a Kendrick fan

There are distros free of systemd, like Devuan, based on Debian.

AntiX, Artix, Guix System and a few others

Gentoo has 5 different init systems

It is also vc backed and they don’t have a direct plan to sustainability

Being tied to US infrastructure isn’t a valid concern?

What then is the difference between it and Whatsapp? Both claim to use the Signal secure protocol but you can never confirm that since their codebases are closed source and proprietary.

as is i2p, qbittorrent and a few others