I got excited by your post because I'm building a reddit-clone too.
It's called Dinomia and it's a just-for-fun concept with a transaction system.
Each time you upvote something an "upvote / credit" is transferred from you to the author of the post, like sending money.
When you create a post/comment/community you loose X "upvote/credits" etc.
I hope Ieddit has great success and congratulations again for the work you have done.
number of commits on the fork is irrelevant to the stated coal "find MAINTAINED forks..." if you had 400 extra commits, but they were 6 years ago i don't care. it's very unlikely to be a "maintained" fork.