There's little doubt that forking can be a good thing @taskmaster4450, but it strikes me the outcome is more likely dereliction than success, unless there are really good reasons for the fork.

Let us go back in time to the good old days of online message board communities. Often, disagreements would arise over certain points of contention, and part of the community would declare something like "We hate this! We're creating our OWN community!" In essence, a primitive "fork" of sorts.

And so, a new community is created, gets off to a roaring start... and then slowly fizzles and dies... usually the result of the "forkers" discovering just how much work it is to build and nurture a community, especially when you lack the age and resources of the seniority of the "original" copy.

Meanwhile, the "original community" tends to live on, almost undisturbed... because of (a) the infamous "first mover advantage" and (b) the heavy influence of "the silent majority."

Golos, Whaleshares and Weku (to mention a few) are all forks of the Steem blockchain. And they are all extraordinarily "diluted" copies of the original. Activity is low, their tokens are essentially worthless, development is minimal, as is growth. At worst, they become like Weku, a place where all the "scavengers" who didn't like getting flagged for plagiarism and scams can do their thing undisturbed... playing to an audience of... almost nobody.

That said, I seem some hope for a community like SteemLeo, if @khaleelkazi and crew can keep up the energy and innovation level till the community hits "critical mass" and the token might even get listed "free standing" on crypto exchanges.

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