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 dig that. We were thinking of something like that for Console. Perhaps all the settings, and chats would duplicate? But I'd worry you'd end up with 20+ copy forks, and it could be difficult for newcomers to know which is the legit real one. Kind of like when there were 10 forks of BTC in 2019. Thoughts?

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That's why you need to build for decentralization, forks can be self-hosted and social consensus determines who is the "legit real one".

Forks end up branding themselves as such, e.g. Ethereum vs Ethereum Classic, different linux flavors, etc.

I agree there should never be confusion

With social networks, I'd worry that forks could lead to incredible misinformation (if you were in a fork and didn't know it). I think a property of the protocol/UI would have to include some information of the fork's origin. Or something like that.

Yeah I think this would actually sort itself out relatively easily as community management is hard and most would die out quickly. 

You really want to have a way to clean up and majorly suppress the abandoned forks though so that new user experience is better.