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.
Fediverse
A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).
If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!
Rules
- Posts must be on topic.
- Be respectful of others.
- Cite the sources used for graphs and other statistics.
- Follow the general Lemmy.world rules.
Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration)
I love the idea! In the meantime, I think mods of similar communities should talk to each other and decide to merge their communities into one, perhaps on a server that's not lemmy.world. I don't remember which one, but I've seen that happening
I think it was !android@lemmy.world that did that and some members of the community threw a fit.
I'm hopeful niche interest communities migrate over to smaller instances, I've seen some niche interest instances pop up slowly but surely thankfully.
I want all like communities to have their own instances, but that’s probably just my organizational brain wanting to group things.
I agree. Mine is mainly for books and writing so I hope more people with those interests (and maybe those communities) will set up shop over here. Idk beyond that, I guess reaching out and offering them a space?