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Federation directly addresses this. If there's a locked community, or a fake community on some instance, make another elsewhere. There will be some growing pains, but eventually people should migrate to the community that best suits their interests and attitudes. It's messy and more work than just taking the big corporate sponsored option, but that's the nature of organic communities.
There was another thread recently asking, "Do I need to subscribe to [community] on all these different instances?" Sure, that's a great way to find the 'best' one for you. Or just sub the biggest, or the one on the biggest instance, and hope for the best.
I am not sure I understand. If I create a community on a different instance with the same name as a community somewhere else, how do those communities relate to each other?
They don't really but if you search for a community, let's say "drumandbass" you will see all of those communities on all instances and subscribe to all of those. And if you don't agree with how one is being run you can either help grow another one or star one on another instance from scratch.