I see no good reason to consolidate. Having more options is important in the Fediverse, in particular when the two servers where the communities are on have different focus and different TOS (as jet mentions).

Maybe set up each other as affiliates / magazines / however min does it, but I see a merge as a flat downgrade.

If you want my 2c, I would be in favor of consolidating here. Usually, I don’t think there is any harm to having multiple subs which overlap, but in the case where one seems like the “right” answer in terms of where to post, I feel like just having one actually probably is better.

Thanks for the link, I now subscribed to that.

I think there is no problem at all with having the same community on different instances. Each of them is its own website and should have communities for any topic in the world; federation merely makes sure we don’t need separate accounts for each of them.

seems logical

Actually, I prefer !privacy@programming.dev because on the db0 one the moderator won’t let me post anything.