I think that governance needs will continue

“I think that we need to do some work on not only shoring up that particular structure where volunteer administrators offer services for free to strangers, but I think we also need to encourage more presence on the Fediverse by organizations and groups that already have an affinity structure. So for me, that’s like your employer sets up a Mastodon server or a Fediverse service, right? Or if they have a blog with WordPress, they enable activity pub on the WordPress or your university provides it to all students, right?

Because there is a level of trust between, you know, well, maybe it’s not always great, but there’s a level of trust between employer and employee. There’s a relationship there that is less, less present in that kind of like strangers offering services to strangers. And there’s an economic relationship too, right? Like the university knows that it should keep paying for this service because it’s valuable to the students and to the faculty and the staff. So that’s one. It’s like, I think that governance needs will continue.”

— Evan Prodromou, Open Channels FM Episode 695