There absolutely needs to be a good way of finding communities here on lemmy, that would probably mitigate the problem a bit. I also like your sticky solution linking to similar communities, but it would be great if this happened automatically (or semiautomatically) when creating communities. As in: oh you are trying to create a “technology” community on your instance? Did you have a look at these ones with the same name on federated instances?
i am actually aware of it. but i think it (or something similar) or something similar should be included in the ‘new community’ dialogue, to curb the amount of new, duplicate, communities being created…,…