Why would you want to resist forking, and incur all that other complexity when you can just have an &quot;authoritative&quot; source for the entry point? Similarly, if someone wants to fork the conversation off and become a new &quot;authoritative source&quot; why would you need to stop them?<p>as for conflict resolution, merging, etc, it kind of looks like a (mostly) solved problem. I don&#x27;t see how conflicts could occur in a comments stream. It&#x27;s append-only.