@twinspin6 idk, something bullshit maybe. from what i've seen (i like to just ignore the drama about mastodon vs. pleroma vs. misskey vs. whatever..) gargron has strange opinions for someone who is developing federated stuff.
i like the ui of mastodon. may be the custom qoto patches though. e.g. pinning timelines of other instances isn't a standard feature iirc.