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Having sibling communities would be another approach.
Each one is still homed on their instance, but if the instances are federated the posts from the other instances automatically flow into the community. They would still show the originating instance, but content would be comingled.
Along those lines, what if communities could suggest other related communities, and clients could (by default, but optionally) also show posts that the communities your subscribe to recommend?
It's a little like soft federation, but on the client side - or, think of it like an automatic way to make multi subs while still allowing users to change it, and giving mods a less nuclear option if they don't like how a community on another instance is going.
Wow yes this sounds great, if a community or commune becomes big enough, multiple instances can share the load and carry content for said community, provided that the people running the instance and the people modding the community can come to an agreement, and for private communities, well we'll see further opportunity for access and more vetting procedures etc
The biggest problem with this approach is the potential headache for mods, and it might actually make things more confusing for the general public.
But OP's approach has a technical issue with a federated system: when two instances federate and each has a community of the same name, who gets to keep it? There's no central authority for such things--that's the point of decentralization.
So I guess it's just a complicated situation.