Most forks fail because you need a core developer to maintain the project
There are dozens of misskey forks, and most of them fail after a few months or a year (calckey ->firefish)
You can't just fork something and live off hopes and dreams
This is why I believe it's in my best interest as the core maintainer of Pixelfed to work with our community as much as possible to eliminate the need for a fork
Such a vibe when you reach this, I love it, fuck egos, we all equals, lets goooo 🚀
@dansup Yeah, I made a similar case about this recently. It’s one thing if you’re just adding features and having fun (CalcKey was a good example), but long-term sustainability for a project requires sticking to it, dedicating loads of time and energy to doing the boring, monotonous, unsexy stuff as well as the exciting hot new stuff.
I think writing a project from scratch puts a dev in the position that they can’t easily back out of development without shutting down completely. There is no upstream to dump work off to, because you’re the upstream.
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