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I think the mods of the duplicate communities should join forces, agree on uniting the communities and close all but one (the other pointing to the united one).
I don't think there's really a good reason to keep communities split. (there are of course contingencies where it makes sense, like rogue mods etc.)
The federated nature of the fediverse with all it's implications.
An instance hosting a community might
Communities can have the same topic, but differ in
I think it's good to have some redundancy both as a backup and to have some choice. As with all things fediverse, we don't need to find a consensus. Those who like to have one big instance or community can join the biggest. Those who prefer some diversity can spread out and create duplicates. Reality will most likely always be something in between.
Another approach could be to ask: Why are communities split? If you're right and there's really no good reason, then how comes this phenomenon occurs so often? Maybe the prevalence of the phenomenon hints at reasons which exist, but are not well understood.
I kind of get this, but:
Also possible, but in most cases a large majority of community members can certainly agree on some compromise.
Yep. Make it so the mods choose to "federate" with the other communities. Otherwise you might have something like news@america.site and news@europe.site which would merge despite having two different purposes.