Why does the fediverse need governance and not just standards in the manner that email has?
A lot of the thread Doug linked was people having back-and-forth around that. I think that the idea was or became about how to govern a body to help further the movement around the protocol. In some ways how to organise SocialHub. ActivityPub being the protocol and decentralising the web being what we use it for
On the linked SocialHub thread I suggested that (in my opinion) this could be organised into a co-operative. There’s another thread on this forum which I opened up about that - maybe this part of the discussion is better had there