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I understand your idea, but I think it would defeat the purpose of the fediverse. It would create single points of failure that are un-correctable.
I also think many people forget that Reddit never functioned any differently. Everyone seems to have forgotten (and Iβm not saying you have!) that there are and were always multiple subreddits for any given topic. With slightly differing names. The only reason people are forgetting this is because eventually one or a handful became pre-eminent and the others died or became transformed into something more niche.
I think itβs a problem that will ultimately correct itself, but I think a tags based system, like hashtags in Mastodon, would be a better solution for tying communities/magazines together through metadata.
To your point, Seattle had 2 subreddits due to disagreement on moderation lol.
Another weird example would be r/soccer and r/football where soccer ironically became the defacto.