@jamiexml Lots of history, interpersonal dynamics, politics, human messiness, and all of that, and I realize that :-) Ultimately the Fediverse, if it is successful, will end up, and need to end up, with multiple centers of overlapping governance -- like most "non-autocratic" human systems.

All help wanted to get as much as possible moving in roughly the right direction. Currently there is little movement regarding standardization at all, and that needs to change IMHO.

/cc @evan