Exactly...
What about some kind of info protocol so there's no single head to chop off. Maybe it piggybacks the bitcoin blockchain for verification, and uses ipfs.
Lack of community though... is hard to combat. It's also a chicken-egg problem. Build it and they will come? :)
Have you researched what currently exists? On a cursory search nothing came up for me. Must consider legal challenges and lack of demand as possible causes.
The bad actors in the system will fight anything that would negatively impact them. Would need more aggregate support from good actors in total to make it viable.