It’d take 200K users with a 100GB contribution to create 4.3 PB of usable capacity. I don’t think enthusiasts will be enough.
Why not make the mining algo multiply random numbers by 0 in order to create coins? That’s be even easier.
Anyway, this topic is about forking the code. It won’t happen anytime soon.
Millions of dollars have been invested in development, and hundreds of thousands per year are needed to sustain.
It won’t happen with the freetard approach.
If anyone forks the network, it’ll probably be closed (for internal use) or commercial (similar to Symform). It sure as hell won’t be “free”.