I lack both time and income to delve deeper into this very interested subject matter atm. For a project such as Fediversity I think it is very important to quantify where time and energy is spent specifically and to what outcome. There’s a serious, serious problem in how the Fediverse co-creators (because its more than only devs) are funded that has implications for its ability to innovate. While there has been progress on the Fediverse (with “fediverse” in meaning of ‘the installed base’ of social web technologies, specifically AS/AP) we’ve seen a 6 year involution on the open standards front and continuous protocol decay in the open social stack.
On this forum you’ll find countless posts of mine where I address aspects of these problems. I am no longer facilitating here, as I don’t think this place will rise above being just a discussion forum into a productive community-of-action.
Instead I started focusing on all the missing elements for a healthy open and decentralized commons-based ecosystem to emerge and evolve. This at a different place: social coding movement, where I started outlining major fedi challenges.
The big problem with the funding programs is that in general “substrate formation” - the coordination of people and processes needed for creating a robust open standards-based technology foundation - is hardly funded, and where it is funded this only includes pure technical work.
While “show don’t tell” releases of technical artifact are first requirement for technology adoption, for broad adoption at the scale and ambition level of the social web, tech-creation is less than half of the work.
Holistic sustainability and sustainability-first approaches are needed, and totally different approaches to organizing in grassroots movements (and have any hope that they remain commons-controlled and not become corporate hellholes that can only lead us to dystopia).
(All these themes are addressed at social coding movement. Adressed… well, with the side-note that only “fostering emergence” will give any meaningful elaboration under the movement’s umbrella.)
The diagram at this topic sketches the idea somewhat:
If you are interested to participate and exchange thoughts there are 2 matrix chatrooms:
- Social experience design
- Groundwork labs, currently discussing Vision for a Fedi Specification.
PS. The acronym “FOSS” in the diagram was a tease. I consider SOSS to be the foundation for a healthy Open social stack, i.e. Sustainable open social software / systems. And FOSS = SOSS + hobby projects 
PS2. I tooted about this subject at: https://social.coop/@smallcircles/113792270801035073