@Robert Honestly Mastodon is more like your own private twitter server than anything, that’s what Truth Social is using it as, they’ve just got a twitter customized skin and using it that way.
They’re still using the base code, but they’re not connecting to any other servers in the fediverse and are making changes themselves yes, anyone can do that. But considering how rabid the democrats are, I’d do the same for anything Gun Related, Trump Related, or Conservative Related.
Stan @WV460HUNTER is heading the team and being a contributor is the only known requirement, he may make you take a WV oath too, not sure, do you play banjo?
Honestly it’s just an option in the config files to remove it from the fediverse just so the raging lefties don’t ruin good gun dialogue with disarmament mumbo jumbo.