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Itβs not about allowing a single instance to own the name. The name would belong to the federation in a global namespace.
A possible scenario is to define multiple namespaces. Each namespace can be local to a single instance, or shared between many. Within each namespace, a single community name is unique.
In this model, each instance would have a namespace that it owns, and the ability to participate in many others.
The trick is in how we name the namespaces and communities. We could do this the USENET way and do something like ., so beehaw.gaming vs. global.gaming. There are other models that could work too.
I'm not sure how that would be different from what we've already got.
IMO the main feature kbin/Lemmy are missing is an equivalent to "multireddits." That would allow multiple communities to be seamlessly aggregated for a user, they'd see all the content blended together as if they were one. I remember seeing a Codeberg issue over on the kbin repo discussing how to implement that, and I'm sure Lemmy's devs are working on it too, so that feature will probably come along fairly soon. Then it shouldn't matter much if the same subject has had multiple instances set up communities.