After you fork, you know you can just pull from the original project? That's why they call it the upstream. Perhaps you're saying that you can't take the comm

After you fork, you know you can just pull from the original project? That's why they call it the upstream. Perhaps you're saying that you can't take the community with you? That doesn't seem like a reasonable expectation. You can fork, and you can continue to pull from upstream, but you can't force people to use it.