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this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2023
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True, but they are all with different names, and they are not completely the same (as in different rules, more specific topic vs general topic, etc). But on Lemmy there is a possibility that two communities having the same exact topic and name for example !technology@beehaw.org and !technology@lemmy.ml, they are both discussing technology (and not any specific difference between them).
@SafetyGoggles The difference between those two is the moderation policies of the instance. Beehaw doesn't federate with the same instances that lemmy.ml does, and has an explicitly more inclusive and less generalist approach. They both cover the same ground, but you couldn't just merge them.
Having said that, it would be nice to see a user level feature that lets end users combine communities in to one "virtual" community in their interface.
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The down side of that would probably be duplicated content. Like if some major news happens for a topic reposts can already be really annoying and usually need moderator action to combine threads. Then there'd be that times however many communities exist for that same topic.
We deal with that in Reddit too though. I see your point but if people are subscribing based on user count then eventually the best community will win I guess?