those pod groups were all set up by nate back when mernetwork first started I think. Same with the pod groups here on mernetwork. Many of them (like the "Unions of pods of the North") had admin set who weren't even from the area, just seems like the same group of people adminning them? It seems like of the few that are active there have been some issues with each pod.

My advice is to just find some Florida groups for merfolk. When we couldn't make the Union of the Pods of the North work for us, we just made out own Canadian mermaid group instead The pods were created early on without much input from the people who actually live there, and based more on geographical location than anything.