@louis That paragraph is actually taken verbatim from the GNU social project page and just modified to indicate it's a fork, but you're not wrong that it could be modified.

(You can check here in case you don't believe me - https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social)

There's a lot of presentation things like that which I need to work on, I think.  The website is basic at best, and the documentation is pretty lacking (though I've been trying to improve that).  The focus, as you might imagine, has been on the code, though.