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In my mind, the fediverse has 2 major issues:
The bots all seem to come from Mastodon, just keep reporting while the people on the backend work on a solution.
The first one is definitely an issue, but I struggle to think of a good solution to it that wouldn't subvert the point of federation in the first place. Not sure if it's a necessary evil, exactly, but we're really still in the early days of the tech. Time will tell if it's solvable.
The second one is more an issue with users. Ideally, while there may be "too many" communities for one topic, they would consolidate over time to a handful or even just one. And while it's worth noting that the nature of federation on Lemmy can isolate communities and instances, it's also a solvable issue on the part of users and admins, it just takes work on their part.