or maybe at least the posts wouldn’t be replicated, but there would only be one community, and when you visit it, posts for the community are downloaded from your primary instance, as well as other instances based on some configuration that makes sense.
I don’t understand how this is a hurdle or a problem when it’s brought up. I subscribe to both in this situation (already am with these two).
I do think it would be cool if communities across instances could essentially link their feeds. But I don’t think that should be forced. Or maybe implement a user feature to group communities so you can click to see their combined feeds.
yes, that’s pretty much what i’m saying. in the background, that is what would be happening, but on the frontend, the user just sees “communityname” and a bunch of posts that are pulled from all instances that have a community matching that name.