Earlier when I was looking for what backend stack they used (I had forgotten they forked from Mastodon) I found an article from last November about their new CTO, and had a lol moment: "its newest CTO…former software engineer who spent more than seven years at Facebook…Gab is happy to introduce our new CTO…With 23 years of industry experience, he brings extensive backend infrastructure knowledge and insights from across the stack…worked as a “production engineer and developer advocate” at Facebook"