The official published version of the article I wrote with @dzulli, "The Digital Covenant", is online and #OpenAccess:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2147400
The paper draws on federalist political theory to talk about how Mastodon instances use codes of conduct to build out a network of shared ethical values. It's fundamental to how I'm thinking about what the #fediverse can be.