One more small thing - though I don’t want to derail the discussion into discussing licenses (maybe start a new topic?). What limitations do you think come from AGPL? Anyone is free to take, modify and run it, and build companies on it as long as they release their source modifications to the public.
For checks and balances I think there are several effective options.
(1) Peergos LTD doesn’t own the copyright on the current peergos code, it is owned by the individual contributors. this defends against re-licensing against the communities interests, which is common.
(2) independent implementations