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As what I understood, actually it makes things worse. This shouldn't be the case because the concept of fediverse itself is to have a lot of many instances communicating with each other.
The problem is the Lemmy is still a young project and we weren't expecting all this explosion in users. activityPub implementation doesn't scale well for now and so adding a new instance theoretically makes things worse.
But this is something that devs have as a high priority, in my opinion, because is very important to have instances correctly communicating with each other, otherwise the concept of federation falls.
When I first heard of the fediverse without understanding the architecture I envisioned something like torrent networks, where the larger the network the stronger the network. After learning more I'm not sure that's the case yet. Hopefully that is the endgame.
I would want to be in a place where I could enrich an existing community by self-hosting and synching content of that community and offering my small chunk of bandwidth to that community. I realize there is no community synching between instances, but I feel that's where it should be to prevent corporate control of communities in the future.
You can read the ActivityPub protocol... I don't think it will become like bittorrent, as there peer-to-peer concept doesn't seem to exist in the spec.
Having said that, while we are running into implementation limitations on the larger instances, the problems are being tackled. A couple of us are chatting on
[!lemmyperformance@lemmy.ml](/c/lemmyperformance@lemmy.ml)and[!lemmyfederation@lemmy.ml](/c/lemmyfederation@lemmy.ml)to see if we can come up with good ideas to present to the devs to help Lemmy scale. You're most certainly welcome to join in on the fun!