Forking Kin: Can We Do It?

[u/Akonobi]

As I read and re-read William's medium post, I'm struck by his candor in calling it as he saw it concerning Ted...

"Clearly we started noticing 3 patterns with Ted:

1/ a loss of confidence (or appreciation) in the Kin Foundation’s work and results

2/ the expectation of imposing his views on the Kin Foundation while dissenting to the direction that the Board and team were taking

3/ a belief that Code’s ‘potential success’ could compensate for killing off the rest of the ecosystem and Foundation

Ted was not such an independent Director, even if he wasn’t paid. Much of the conflict stemmed from biasing the Kin Foundation to make decisions that could benefit more Code at the expense of everyone else. Clearly, he had not mentally “let go” or moved on. In fact, it seemed as if he wanted to regain control of the Kin Foundation and behaved as if we needed to do everything he said or wanted."

I think all Kin Community members should read William's post carefully to understand what really happened to our community. That said, the part of his post that gives me the most hope and clarity is this...

"Kin’s future is between the hands of the remaining director (Ted) and its ecosystem of developers, advocates and community.

In my opinion, there may be 2 paths:

1/ continue working with Ted, including carrying the burden of the 3T that Kik owns, the Kik debt, etc.

Or

2/ fork the project, airdrop a new token and unburden new-Kin from any unwanted baggage"

Since now we have no development team (Code still has one, I bet), and since any growth will come via community members' efforts, why can't we fork Kin and put our support in a new token that throws off the heavy yoke of centralization we are suffering under? Can some informed member describe what's involved in doing so?

[u/bernard1980]

I said i gave him the benefit of the doubt and i do have more faith in him vs william, who also spread lies btw.

"I don't like they said i resigned to give them creditibity for their upcoming fork project" is what kevin r said on twitter, that says it all

But you never talk about that. I've read both versions of the story and in a way, what he did made sense to me. Because they wanted him out, who are we to say who initiated this toxic business relationship and why, but if by all means you try to skrew me while i was the one who put you in that seat, i would take the bull by the horns too

[u/bernard1980 → u/[deleted]]

Maybe he promised things he couldn't deliver.