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

They can bury me deep, but I always grow back.

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.

Yes, the host of data still needs to moderate, which is why you should be able to self-host 😄

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)

Yes but what if reddit was self-hosted and open source too, then you won't be locked into anything and even even fork the software on top of the community

I think a protocol like this would require open source and easy portability, without lock-in

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