This is a positive story and a strong lesson to learn from the outcome:
https://social.network.europa.eu/about/
https://tube.network.europa.eu/about/instance
As you can see they soon dumped the grassroots crew who made it happen and employed #NGO “experts” on how to run them, this lead to ossification.
The morale of the story, keep the “cats” onboard, is as much an issue of the “libertarian cats” as it is of the #Eurocrats.
STRONG lesson to learn from this.