What would a fediverse "governance" body look like?

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Question, is this a “native” aproch to the fedivers or is his about imposing #mainstreaming “common sense” onto a space where it does not fit.

Question, do we think the current wide organisations work well for the #openweb and how meany of them are currently outside #dotcons and #NGO capture?

Question: this ends up as a top-down democratic structure, likely filled with “power politics” and pushing #NGO thinking if the treads on here are any guide. How do you see this being different, what would you put in place to mediate this outcome?

A formal organization can have a variety of structures and you can assign roles and power in a variety of ways. If you structure it in such a way where the working groups are autonomous and members have a way of influencing the working groups, then you don’t have the top down hierarchy that you describe. Even if you have someone at the top, you can give them little actual power.