Apparently, I missed the #ForkOff kerfluffle during my instances #GDPR dark time.
I'm glad there's a forking effort for #Mastodon. It's an example of the power of #FOSS; if you don't like the how the code works, or how a project works, you can #ForkIt.
And, the fact it's an open protocol makes it even more powerful. There are myriad implementations of #activitypub. #Pleroma is yet another implementation.