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).
I think this is currently one of the biggest problem of Lemmy on the UX department. Non technical users from Reddit will only expect one “subreddit” for a theme, but if they search on Lemmy, they’ll find more than one community with the same topic, and it’ll confuse them and make them less likely to come back.
But that’s the way how Fediverse work, so I don’t think combining two communities should be done from the Fediverse side, but rather each Lemmy instance can curate a “playlist” or “multireddit” that has some of the biggest communities from the users’ server and other federated servers about the same topic, and users can subscribe to the “playlist” rather than individual community.
Yep, that’s exactly what I mean. Coverung the same ground, but they are different communities with different moderation, so it can’t be merged, but it make sense to group them together and view it as a “playlist”. Just like Whitney Houston and ABBA don’t collaborate to make albums, but it make sense for their songs to exist together in a playlist called “Songs from the 80s”.