@crashdoom We're not on pawb.social, have been considering signing up (*waves paw from Mastodon*), but I like the idea of a fork.
It sounds like Kbin federates upvotes as microblog /boosts/, of all things, which makes absolutely no sense (i.e. upvoting there comes across as boosting to people on Masto and vice versa), while Lemmy does it as stars/"favorites", which is much more in line with the concept of an upvote.
And there's precedent for forking – the Pleroma devs were shitty, though I can't remember how, and now there's the Akkoma fork.