@soaproot My goal isn’t to discourage anyone from running a fork, so much as it’s an insight into what you’re signing up for.
For me, a big concern involves trying to run a fork that actively competes with Mastodon, to the point of trying to replace it. This is what I see when people make calls for a hard fork, and it concerns me because it’s never a call to support an existing fork or another piece of software.
What it communicates to me is that someone is more interested in being the SABDFL, rather than being one of the contributors supporting an existing project.