If that was a legitimate issue, MMO’s (which also often have servers the player needs to choose) wouldn’t have the userbase they do. Nor would Email have taken off.

But in an MMO, you still get the same content no matter what server you choose. Over here, it directly impacts what content you can interact with based on (de)federation.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you joined a German-speaking WoW server as a non-speaking German, the experience was going to be subpar

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, and if you join a German-speaking instance as a non-German speaking user, the experience will also be subpar. Hence I talked about content, not language.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

I just remembered that WoW nowadays offers a lot of different experiences: Classic, Seasons of Mastery, Retail, etc.

And people get different experiences based on the server they pick.

[–] hemmes@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m on three different instances and the sort by All-hot feed is nearly identical.

I’m not on Beehaw or Hexbear, but those instances make it pretty well known they block a lot of other instances.

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Some instances have very different rules on them that would affect your experience. Like not allowing downvotes, for example. Blahaj users can't see downvotes or downvote anything themselves.

[–] hemmes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, true. But that’s cool. Having choice like that is great!

But I suppose that’s the issue. Trying to keep signup simple to help drive user engagement. How much do you try to wrap someone’s head around such nuanced differences, and when do you say “just join me on my instance”?

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

PvP v. PvE seems like it would make s difference, probably? :-P

But yeah I get you: the list of varied options is too large, and worse yet opaque.

Fwiw Blaze most often just recommends 2-3 options to current Redditors, to KISS (Keep It SimpleS:-).