Just checking: am I correct that there are two AskLemmy’s?
https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy https://lemmy.world/c/asklemmy
If so, is there any way to bring communities with the same purpose (or even same name) on different instances together? If not, how can we prevent fragmentation of these communities?
No built-in way. Not anymore than multiple subreddits for the same purpose. Eventually one will become the more popular. It’s nothing new.
Why doesn’t X, the bigger community, simply eat the smaller communities?