Your post is great but I think this point and your subsequent post hit the nail on the head as to the answers to your questions–culture comes from apps, not from ‘governing’. When, as and if apps take off within the ZKsync ecosystem, that will filter ‘up’ to governance as naturally those cultures will want to have and be able to achieve a strong voice
I think ZKsync eco is well set up for this, due to the very governance-minimized structures you have some concerns about. It creates the conditions for credible neutrality, which creates space for true organic cultures to emerge and eventually fight for governance power. Contrast with Base and their recent kemonokaki controversy–this shows how bad things get when ‘governance culture’ as such runs out of control. Culture (including the governance culture) should organically grow from real communities based on non-governance people doing what they love rather than growing based on governance people’s ‘love of governing’ as with many DAO cultures
I’d also like to challenge the very concept/idea that delegates should ‘align on a DAO strategy’ or something similar here. Who should align and how can they align? And how would this ‘alignment’ be subsequently enforced, assuming it is agreed upon?
The delegates are not a joint venture collectively running the system as a business, nor should they try to become anything like this. Positively that may be considered ‘alignment’ but a negative interpretation of it is ‘collusion’.
IMO we should stick to the real facts and mechanisms. Those are the onchain voting/delegation mechanisms with each delegate (including any self-delegates) having an independent voice, power and evaluation responsibility. ‘Alignment’ in this context could only mean that certain delegates pre-commit to vote together or vote a certain way on certain issues, but the first sort of commitment is collusion which should be discouraged as it defeats decentralization, and the second sort of commitment is practically unenforceable on a group basis and therefore not super useful.
this post is being made in my capacity as a delegate and not any other capacity (eg Guardian)