Both a healthy and active SocialCG as well as strong SocialHub community are vital, imho, to get anywhere in this effort. One of the big hurdles in this is: People doing the chores of community-building and knitting things together. An EU-funded fediverse is a great idea, and we should consider having a funded community commons, to alleviate time investment and commitment issues.
Think the focus should be on “standards and processes”, offering the methods and practices to ease interoperable implemention of the standards.
(wow, the Ethics for Design page is horribly designed for unusability)
Update: See also the discussion in Organizing for SocialHub Community Empowerment