I would like to see some kind of “canonicalization” feature in Lemmy to support this, similar to CNAME in DNS.
In OP’s example, !android recently merged into !android, where lemdro.id is the canonical server.
So it would be awesome if !android was entirely equivalent to !android. But as it stands, the lemmy.world community had to lock and everyone had to individually migrate themselves.
Essentially, in a case like this, I just want to call it !android (or c/android) and not need to care about which server it is hosted on. But as it is currently, I always have to reference the canonical domain since it is different than the one my account is on.