Designing for reliability is a bit of an art, and it's hard. It took Signal something like 4 months with at least half their dev team to finally deliver their backup feature in all its glory (and I must have seen every line of code, including the ones they reversed, lol) and these aren't noobs. So let's see what's what. If it's not reliable, maybe it can be made reliable. Affero isn't the worst license to contribute under when it's FSF-assigned (which whitenoise is.)