Don't wanna sound too pessimistic, but I feel for current fedi not to become basically indistinguishable from the corporate web elsewhere.. too late, it's gonna happen.
Could we've avoided that in the years before mainstreaming started? That's an interesting question. Maybe not, given how hard it is to organize / collaborate in grassroots movements where fragmentation is the norm, and evolution slow, organic.
From Meta I expect an EE, the 3rd E just involves our culture dying.