Gopher should be Gemini instead, but that's even more niche than Gopher already is. Main advantage would be obligatory TLS, and the use of more or less agreed-upon GemText. In any case, I am interested in how an experiment involving the use of something like GemText as actual BB software would look like.
Be advised that Mastodon's preferred DBMS is pgsql, too.
Thank you for the announcement to support PeerTube.