Thank you 
As for the survey… might start with a basic poll in a toot to get a first feel of how people encountered the fediverse.
I guess that’s true. But in a normal FOSS project there’s less risk in not being involved with, say, the programming language evolution or projects you depend on. Maybe ‘risk’ is not the right word, but federated project devs bought into a vision of highly interoperable apps, and are passionate for the culture and community vibes of the fediverse.
But the fediverse has no project driving it forwards. There is no organization conveniently publishing the next standard, or bring forth a new release to update your dependency against. It’s community all the way down. Not participating means stalled progress, or a dead end eventually.
Could you elaborate on this? I wrote United Software Development: A new paradigm? but that is probably not what you mean…