@dominick @tchambers I see your point but I'd put it a little differently: Forking shows what's possible but it's a very slow road back to main line.
The critical point here is that the UX issues we're talking about here: better onboarding, stronger DM model, search, quote tweets are all things that benefit most from being across ALL servers.
The 'just fork it' approach focuses on the easy and optional window dressing that is far less important.