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this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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You can already view a community from any instance. Just subscribe to communities you want. Support more and smaller instances of you want more decentralization. Lemmy.world going down taking out so many communities with it is a problem of too much being hosted there. Everything you're describing basically already exists. It would be very silly to force communities to merge with other ones. Just because they have the same name doesn't mean they have the same rules.
OP didn't say force. OP specifically said allow.
But then you have all the same federation politics and drama at the community level like we do at the instance level. It'd be such a mess.
Just make it easier for users to subscribe to each instance of a community with one tap. And let them view them all grouped in one feed.
And better yet, let people combine any communities together into a personal group; not just ones with the same name. There's no need to get mods involved at all. I wrote more about this in another comment.