I'm with @spinflip on this, I don't think the fediverse can be seen as a community. There is not central guidance or line, fediverse is really just the software.
Right now most servers are federated as if it were one, and some main ones have much communication power(that is why many argue that mastodon.social should close registratons), but that is not how it has necessarily to be. I can see easily various islands forming, more or less federated, for many kind of people.
I don't know much about what happened with @wilw , but I wonder what tools do the various platform give to protect "famous" or target users from "mob attacks".
Is there something like that?
Maybe like a negative mute, where everybody is muted and can request to be unmuted?
or..?
