YSK: Subscriber count on communities only show the numbers of users subscribed from your specific instance. The real number might be much larger than you think.
You can use https://lemmyverse.net/ to check actual subscriber numbers.
Edit: Why YSK: New users of Lemmy can find the number low and think that a community is dead or inactive, when infact it might be a thriving place with a lot of activity.
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Lemmy currently misses a sync feature across servers. Meaning that moving one lose all subscription and messages.
The real solutions should be a distributed network to support federation, instead than a plain federated one, i.e. an automated redistribution of users and loads across servers (lemmy instances).
I don't know how they are planning to manage it on the long run
Automatically distributing users across instances fails to treat them as independently operate websites. That's not going to fly.
Viewing everything through a user lens, and ignoring that site operators may have site specific goals is, uh, not ok.
It can be done keeping separated instances, by just distributing data and load across instances connected to the network, depending on their available resources, instead of explicitly creating new duplicated users on each instance.
It however require a lot of work and effort. I don't know if anyone will ever manage to implement it.