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.
Combining them doesn’t make sense to me. There are situations where there are two big communities from two big instances with the exact same name(ie. c/reddit), but the content and the mod approach(rules etc.) aren’t the same.
So, I think it’s a good thing. You’re interested in discussing a topic but don’t feel comfortable on the community you found? You can just go find the same topic on another instance!
I would say merging them doesn’t make much sense, but combining them (via some multi-sub entity a user can subscribe to) would be a nice way to organise and browse/filter your subscriptions.