Very late to the party, but I just wanted to float another idea: While the community is still as small as it is, maybe the community can just sort of govern ourselves for the time being.
As long as we're sure to be active with the upvotes and downvotes, that should paint a general shape of what the community wants to look like, and then we can sorta take it from there?
Very rarely does an opportunity come along to start from the ground up!
Do you think reddit lost? Because they seem totally fine to me.