What I am more concerned about in terms of EEE is that basically all of the FOSS fedi apps that exist are like the R&D input to any corporation that wants to make a big splash entry to the Fediverse.
Does it matter if a project is AGPL if it was created from years of dev by a single person, where a corporation inspired by the project might dedicate a 50 person team full-time to recreating its innovative aspects, and then put another big team on productizing and marketing it?
I think the only real protections are in those features and technical aspects (e.g. hard-to-scale) that are by nature less interesting to corporations and as unattractive as possible for monetization.
Good to re-watch may be AP Conf talk by @darius “Let’s Play and Win Our Own Game”:
See also: Let's Play and Win Our Own Game
Update: Tooted about this…