@jonny I feel like there's two separate issues at play here, in that "insular response" and "lack of governance structure" are two separate things.

The lack of a governance structure/process of some kind is indeed a problem, though one that IMO is subject to the exact same power dynamics as the 'politics of fascism'; in that there are a handful of 'figureheads' who de facto hold decisionmaking power regardless of the intentions of anyone else around governance (and who don't seem very interested in sharing or making space).

The "insular response" is more complicated though. Many (especially marginalized) folks are here not because they signed up to 'fix society', but because they were seeking refuge personally, in a social space that is made for them, where they are not excluded like they are everywhere else.

Which raises an uncomfortable question: is it actually even reasonable to essentially draft some of the most vulnerable and lowest-spoons folks into becoming responsible for fixing world politics? *Can* you actually expect "fedi" as a whole to be the solution here?