Are you contributing content?

Something like the multireddit function then, maybe? Custom feeds where you can add any communities that you want (doesn’t even have to be the same topic).

I don’t think it makes sense to combine the feeds at a federation level (which I think is what you’re talking about, but correct me if I’m wrong). There may be non-topic reasons that some users would want to join/read one but not another. And who would determine whether topics were similar enough to warrant having combined feeds?

Being able to make your own personal multi-community feeds would definitely be a nice feature. That wouldn’t have any issue with posting, either.

I don’t think the fragmentation is necessarily not present on Reddit. There are subs on there that are on the same topic, there’s nothing stopping someone from creating a duplicate just because they’re on the same server, ya know?

One thing that ends up happening over there is that both are active but with different types of community culture. For example, there’s /r/JonBenetRamsey which is where people who believe someone in the family did it congregate, and /r/JonBenet which consists primarily of people who think an intruder is responsible.

Or, there are multiple subs for the same or highly overlapping topics and people just subscribe to both/many. Even if they cover the same topic, since they’re in separate spaces they don’t necessarily have that behemoth sub feel. On Reddit I’m subscribed to wicca, wiccan, and witch. (I was also subscribed to witchcraft until the mod made an unhinged post about how the API thing didn’t matter to anyone, and I got banned for my reply which was polite but disagreed lol.) All have activity.

The other outcome on Reddit is that one sub thrives and becomes the default, and the others just don’t have any activity so people don’t sub.

This is a very long-winded way to say, I think the solution to your problem is just joining both communities, and you’ll see both in your feed as a result.

Agree! It’s a conversation, not a dissertation :)