@flip @cblgh Yeah that's definitely worth considering. There's a bunch of features available besides local only posts that factor into this too—I originally didn't want to move to a fork specifically because of the potential maintenance/upgrade overhead and not being able to switch back, those are valid concerns!
@somnius @flip maybe @darius can chime in with his thoughts on the current status of Hometown's maintenance & such?
afaik, Hometown is explicitly about minimizing the difference between upstream & its changes–if only to reduce the maintenance burden.
i think local-only (and the speculative future feature of neighbourhood-only posting) would be a big boost, esp. given the situation today wrt online safety