As a new reddit exile, I may be misunderstanding this.
In theory something like a !gaming community could crop up on multiple large instances, especially during the mass exodus while instances are getting hammered with spikes in volume.
If that’s the case, we’ll have fragmented communities across instances. Is there any way besides subscribing to each of them to combine them into a sort of multi-reddit type aggregation? Or is this considered a temporary (albeit important to adoption) problem during the crazy stages?
I don’t think it’s a problem or a feature. It’s exactly what we saw on Reddit before it grew. It’s not like Reddit had a limit on the number of subreddits a topic could have. As far as I’m concerned it’ll eventually sort itself out just like it did on Reddit. It’ll just take time to establish which communities are the largest. Eventually people will stop posting/subscribing to the communities that don’t have as many people, and the largest one(s) will win out, just like they did on Reddit. This is an issue that requires patience. In the meantime, subscribe to them all and post to the one that has the most subscribers just like you would on Reddit if there wasn’t a clear central community.