Longer post(s) to come after the morning school rush, but!
The Fediverse governance research @darius and I have been working on this year—with the absolutely central participation of so many wonderful Mastodon and Hometown server teams—is out:
https://write.as/fediversalist-papers/releasing-our-findings
And look at this great mini-site Darius made for the findings using Manubot and a lot of elbow grease:
https://fediverse-governance.github.io
PDFs also available for Nerds Like Me.