I think the main solution is to have an easy way of searching for existing communities before deciding to make you own. browse.feddit.de seems to be a good step in that direction to me.
astronomy_geek
joined 2 years ago
After just getting started learning to do my own car maintenance, definitely the subreddit dedicated to my model of car
"We're offline working to restore access to subreddits that went private for some reason" - Reddit, probably later today
No idea honestly. My best guess would be that browse.feddit.de hasn't cached those communities yet if you just recently created them. There's options to turn on/off different instances in the sidebar, and it looks like feddit.de is on by default.