EDIT - A lot of people have made some very good points below. We don't need to get rid of the comms we have (or not create new ones as the need arises). Rather the suggested comms below can be something in addition to the ones we already have (and the ones we'll create), meant for a more broader/general view, posts etc.
1a.) A c/imperialcore would be preferable to having a separate c/canada and c/oceania and c/europe etc. A lot of the laws/politics etc. in these countries are very similar especially w.r.t. how they interact with the global south.
1b.) A dedicated c/internationale community to talk about the global south (rather than separate c/sino, c/latam etc). This can be a place to talk about other global south nations that don't have separated communities without those posts getting lost in the bigger communities.
2.) A c/religion rather than having separate c/christianity, c/judaism, c/islam, c/paganism etc. This allows a place for posts about buddhism, hinduism, jainism etc. These communities, like the ones mentioned in 1a and 1b, have posts that would be of interest to a lot more people than just their userbase.
3.) A unified c/theory rather than separate c/anarchism and c/marxism. This can then also incorporate other tendencies like ultraleft, communalism, etc. I'm someone who isn't on "either" side of the theory line. I frequent both marxists.org and anarchistlibrary.org to read the new additions and go through the backlog. On YouTube I watch both anarchists and MLs. A combined c/theory will invite more users to join, read, post, and interact with one another. Now that we have a dedicated c/strugglesession, any discussion in c/theory that starts drifting towards that direction can easily be directed there.
Right now, these communities get barely any traction because we don't have the userbase to support them. Maybe when we do, we can separate them again if enough users demand it. But there is a lot more to be gained if we combine these communities. At least in my view.
I understand the desire for international collaboration, but... this sounds like an incredibly American take. There's lots going on here that folks over there won't want to read or discuss, and vice versa. There is a lot that goes on in my country that's particular to its history, especially the relationship between Indigenous groups and the colonial state, and to paint that with the same brush as the parallel relationship in other regions fits perfectly into our deeply problematic mindset of not respecting the diverse nationhood of these peoples.
I realize the comm is pretty quiet and probably not going to grow right now, but if you do a commonwealth or "Western" merger, very few people will have any interest in the resulting space.
Yeah, that's a point I hadn't really considered. I still think we need a c/internationale or a c/imperialcore or something but maybe getting rid of country/region-specific comms isn't needed for that. And keeping individual comms but just adding these as something more broader will be good enough. Thanks.