I feel the Consensus document you cite provides a strong overview of how to frame governance.
While I would normally reach towards JS Mill regarding the tyranny of majorities the pollution of Liberalism from Neoliberal schools the last two generations mean that Anarchist approaches have better flexibility (society as a living lab as it were).
Im not sure its worth taking a headcount on the number of anarchists here (Im not one, though I consider them invaluable for rehabilitating other parts of the political spectrum once they forgoe centralising and hierarchical tendencies).
Infact, to treat this as a forum in such terms is not only counterproductive for outreach and macro consensus building but potentially harmful to individuals as a consequence of prejudice.
I should repeat these concerns with regards to proactively processing users through the Community Values Policy (as beneficent as it has been written).
There are many reasons for people to be looking over their shoulder - including in democratic countries.
As a community we should not risk outing civically minded types who are suffering misfortunes of time and jurisdiction.
As a practical example, China is now exporting its firewall to pro authoritarian countries.
Among Geedge Networks’ tool, Cyber Narrator, client governments can identify individuals who accessed people who previously visited a website that only later becomes illegal (p15):
h/t David Frank: "So someone leaked a huge repo of source code and …" - Gamedev Mastodon
There have been funding cuts from USA for initiatives like the aforementioned analysis:
As such, the Fediverse may need to crowdsource more help than would be envisaged a year ago.
As such, I reiterate my point about the need to maintain as wide a net of anti-authoritarian groups as possible.
Commenting on the Polder model, I expect a lot of the subtleties come down to The Netherland’s inability for autarky (the wikipedia article references that as an inhibitor on political rigour).
As somebody trained in economics I have an allergy to autarky, as it did our forbearers no good experiencing collusion between monarchs and mercantilists.
Resisting the urge to point small handwards, its worth understanding this Dutch model and how small borders impacts governance - this could provide greater clarity regarding what consensus should look like among/between Fediverse instances.
… Finally, its worth asking:
How would our governance need to change in order to widen the diversity of SocialHub?