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Yes this is true. I guess there's also nothing in the way to subscribe to all 10. Except for a bloated personal subscription list.
It's worth remembering that this is a bit of a goldrush scenario on creating new communities. I strongly suspect communities will to start to consolidate over time.
Hopefully that doesn't happen.
For some topics, there are already existing, very active, communities before the subreddits with the same topic migrated over. Who should merge with whom? The existing large communities with subreddit migrators? Or, the subreddit migrators merging with th existing large communities … and conforming to the rules and culture in those existing large communities?
As mentioned, there are different cultures and rules that develops per community. There is no such thing as one-size-fits-all.
Even if communities “consolidate over time”, it will still split up no matter what. That's how it has always been sincee the beginning of online communities.
IF communities indeed consolidate over time, if that server/instance goes down, the entire consolidated communities will be gone overnight, and all the content they collected together. We've already seen this happen just this year, forget about the previous years.
In short, don't expect it. In fact, it should be supported to ensure that:
a. we don't return to a centralise system
b. we don't put all our eggs in one basket
c. we build redundancy, continuation, and resiliency.
^_^