@evan As someone who's set up and run an instance in the past, I can tell you:
1. The structure of the fediverse and activitypub itself is about as perfect as you can get for governance. It allows a massive amount of freedom as well as the ability to be governed if you choose. It's simply rarely seen and not quite understood.
2. ActivityPub, the base protocal linking all these instances, works similar to email, where a post is simply a reply to an email and everyone commenting is cc'd, but everyone on your instance can also see everyone else's mail on that instance. "governing" ActivityPub would be like controlling email - and starting a world wide organization to do that.... talk about herding cats!
Anyway. The best thing the Fediverse can do to govern is create more and more *small* instances that are specialized to people's interests.
https://sfba.social/@coldfish/113515972941714363
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