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The problem with the multiple redundant communities is real, but it's also real on Reddit. It's just that Reddit has been around for much longer and there has been time for everyone to reach a consensus on which community is the real one. And even then there's different ones still. Is it workreform, antiwork, or workabolition you're looking for? Or for something with less of an ideological debate behind the separation, is it tabletopgamedesign or boardgamedesign?
It's a little different than having "news" vs "worldnews" though, right? You could have 20 communities called "news", and they all have different content as I understand it.
Yes, news and worldnews are different things. But the ones I mentioned above are the same thing, different subreddits. Like me_irl and meirl. No reason for there to be two, but there are.
So sure, maybe the Federation thing makes it even more common. But it's not a new problem, and it mostly self corrects. People gravitate to the bigger community. The smaller community will get some strays asking why there is not much movement here, and somebody will reply because we're all at this other place and then the next stray sees the message and doesn't even have to ask.
Additionally if the main community declines in quality I'd expect users to migrate