@darius I think that as people are discovering some scaling issues, they might look for alternatives that don't require such a big server, and they might be initially confused. Pleroma or GoToSocial might be what they want? You are offering something more like an add-on set of features for Mastodon, rather than a differently architected implementation (right?)
@knewman completely correct. I have updated the language: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/blob/hometown-dev/README.md