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.

Not even during the day?

If the usa was gonna come crashing down, the earlier the better

as is i2p, qbittorrent and a few others