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@mcc @polotek I think the above captures this well.

There are dozens of existing projects in the Fediverse. Why did the Social Web Foundation decide to only invite three of the long term projects that have existed in this space?

And did the people who started FediForum (who were new to the space) reach out to any of the people behind the projects of the Fediverse? From my vantage point of talking to the people who work on lots of those projects, it sure didn’t sound like it.

As for whether it is truly volunteering: for a lot of projects, it truly is. Many of the projects in this ecosystem are developed by people in their spare time and they’re happy with that. But there’s also a reason I included the “(or grant supported)” paraenthetical, because by and large the projects which have people working on them full time are receiving a lot of funding from grant giving orgs.

Realistically what this comes down to is that a lot of people keep setting up organizations and things around the fediverse but if they’re talking to the people who’ve been building it they’ve certainly not been talking to many of them.