Gab already did this and the net of it was probably somewhat negative for Mastodon. Fundamentally the users of these systems don't know or care what's under the

Gab already did this and the net of it was probably somewhat negative for Mastodon. Fundamentally the users of these systems don't know or care what's under the hood, and the people running these instances are surely not going to trumpet the fact they just used something created by open source communists.