So from what I’ve seen… Yeah. There are a lot of redundant communities sometimes with the exact same name scattered across the different fediverse instances. I have noticed that many of those are new within the last 2-3 weeks which is probably attributed to the reddit exodus, maybe with some more time these communities will mature and aggregate a little bit to make it easier on new users.

For now I have subscribed to many small and fragmented communities and I view them all at the same time on my “home page” with the wefwef webapp