That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it’s the nature of life to be hazardous—it’s the stuff of living.
To be fair, that’s mostly because Lemmy is pretty small with just 50K MAUs. It feels more like a large forum than a full on social network.
If Lemmy had 1 M MAUs, I think the instance culture would be a lot less noticeable (national instances notwithstanding).
It’s already in use. It’s a commenting system on some blogs/websites:
It’s still technical jargon. IMO best to avoid even basic technical explanations and focus on functional descriptions.
Something along the lines of “the fediverse is designed so no single person can can buy out the whole social network, no matter how much capital they have available.”
To be fair, the real metric that matters is MAU (and DAU, but it never seems to get published for Lemmy).