Truth. Literally all Gab is, is a fork of Mastodon
Anyone in the owrld can run their own mastodon instance.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/07/statement-on-gabs-fork-of-mastodon/
https://reclaimthenet.org/gab-biggest-mastadon-node/
kek, the irony is not missed.
fact of the matter is, the functionality to have worldwide distributed social media has existed for years, but been prevented because of politics.
The Gab vs Mastodon schism proves that pretty blandly. And that is just the latest proof.
The big three tech giants also had cross plaform abilities with xmpp, but they all turned it off by 2012.