Still kinda is. Take r/Seattle as an example. A massive segment of that community could not stand the main mod, so they had to make r/SeaWa, which when compared to just hosting a new Seattle community on a different instance, it eliminates that issue where the more popular iteration appears less… official?

What’s less good is when you like two communities by the same name on different instances, so you have to keep checking which one you’re on, lol.