That’s kinda the exact opposite. Not many people want to use small instances, so not many people are interested in fixing something like that. However, let’s say lemmy.world becomes unusable because of too much cross-server communication. That would cause inconvenience to way more people, increasing the likelihood that someone will do the work to fix it.
I’m sure if we reach that point, someone will add a method for batching cross-server communication. That’s the beauty of FOSS
… Eventually…
Here’s a bug on Mastodon that’s existed since 2016 that makes small instances unusable. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/34
That’s kinda the exact opposite. Not many people want to use small instances, so not many people are interested in fixing something like that. However, let’s say lemmy.world becomes unusable because of too much cross-server communication. That would cause inconvenience to way more people, increasing the likelihood that someone will do the work to fix it.