@evan Mastodon is the obvious starting point. From a community perspective, better health and safety tools will help. From an ecosystem perspective, raising the baseline feature support will be very valuable. It is very obvious they're pulled in a multitude of directions and are having a hard time progressing them all.

Beyond that, I think it's worth thinking about: which projects are bringing new things to the space? What can we do to support those? Maybe you work with a grant giving org like NLNet or maybe you look at their model.

Finally, I would ask: how do you get more of the projects in existence involved? How do you get more of the *community* projects involved, because so far all the ones involved in the SWF are those with legal entities representing them except PixelFed (which is very much run like a project with a legal entity backing it would be)