To me what I see here is that the software to run a social media site is available to everyone, but some people don't want social media sites just to reach people, they want to build little empires. Why would you try to build a proprietary application when one already exists if your stated goal is free expression? Why would you attempt to obscurely and illegally re license software that already serves it's purpose? It's honestly a sign of what is slowly happening in social media, things like this and what gab did are the death throes of proprietary interactive media.