Thinking about a network state protocol that allows you to fork communities when you disagree. Many communities today are run by a leadership which safeguard their setup (e.g. private software and heavy moderation).

Thoughts on a protocol designed for easy exit and fork of communities, like a fork button?

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i don't think this is protocol'able, over the history of the internet there have been a lot of community forks like:

something awful > 4chan
reddit > voat (largely unsuccessful)

i think the essential element is portable followers, that way people can easily vote when community leaders leave/enter new spaces

'villainess' doesn't do justice to my complexity, and only reveals your simplicity 

i don't think this is really forking, if you're still locked into the super-client and super-network you're just making it a distributed system

which is perfectly valid but at the point that people disagree enough they usually want more than just portable data

also practically the super client / network will have content moderation standards they mandate if you want to use their data (which truly portable followers solves a bit for)

In each of these forks the community leaders had to build there own software, and start with their own data.

Imagine if I could press fork on reddit, and I'll get a copy of whatever subreddits I want, and I can self-host it.

The context here is @jc is in a fight with the organizers of the phunks community and rather than go build his own he’s trying to argue that he should be able to change the structure that the community has spent the last 2 years thinking about and building for themselves. You can’t just fork people you disagree with.