I don’t think this is quite correct. Gitea was a community fork of Gogs, because Gogs was limited by its single maintainer, who was often unresponsive for months. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13296717
In a way that makes it worse. A community fork that is repurposed by a select few to make money off of work that those few did not do for the most part.