Is it worthwhile to try to get mods to combine them? It just seems like a bit of a waste when trying to grow a community and its split in two.
Or is this what the fediverse is supposed to look like?
I read before somebody said that we might be able to combine similar communities at some point but don’t know if that’s true.
Yes, it’s a great thing.
In the old days of forums there were multiple forums for popular topics, so if you didn’t like one or didn’t agree with how it was moderated you had many more to choose from. It was usually friendly and you got to know all the regulars in a forum.
Next we had centralisation which lead to massive forums, resentment built up against moderators, everyone was faceless and had no sense of community, and it all basically turned in to a competition for attention.
Now we have decentralisation, we can have lots of manageable size communities again - it’s great.