Oh, that’s correct! Thanks for taking the time to write this clarification. And I’m not sure I’ve seen broken links via beehaw. I’d have to check again which instances are defederated. I’m using Liftoff and pretty sure it asks me from which instance I want to navigate to a community.
For now, this is true. But those forks get updates from Tachiyomi (changes in Android / security fixes / feature updates / bug fixes) so they need a new base.
It seems important to follow the Mihon rebrand. Some forks, SY and AZ, announced they will rebase off Mihon (it’s in the #faq of the Mihon discord server https://discord.gg/mihon)