What makes you think they can't attract talent? There are plenty of libertarians in tech that would be willing to work with them, including this SRE right here. I think they had other issues. Perhaps they were just out of their league and didn't have the leadership capable of fighting fires while simultaneously recruiting, scaling, policing, etc. Typical successful startup skills that many people don't have.

I’m responding to a person who made this assertion, but designing your site in a way that non-users can archive all media uploaded to it seems like a good sign!