I need to do more research and process this news - but initial impressions are incredibly depressing.
I don't know what to say about this that hasn't already been said by others in this thread
I really do not understand why this would get official support.
We should be working on the interface issues to integrate other languages, not forking the whole blockchain.

I committed so much time and money to this project because I thought we were working towards a complete replacement for facebook,twitter,wordpress + more for the world.

If this is successful , others will follow and we will have forked blockchains for every region and niche in no time.

ReSteeming for visibility and will be researching further..