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Even the word "Instance" is unnecessary gatekeeping jargon.
What do you propose instead of "Instance" ?
Service provider, server, or website as another suggested.
A typical sentence might be, "Do you use Gmail, Yahoo, or proton as your email provider?" There have been dozens of popular services over the decades but only Lemmy used a new word to mean the same thing.
I just tell people it's a network of websites that you can use one login for. Like using your Google account to sign into pornhub.
No follow up questions.
It's so simple I wish I had been describing it this way all along instead of trying to explain instances.
I may be too dumb for web development, but I'm just smart enough to explain it to the other dummies.