Title is misleading, FTA:

Confirmation that I am 63% British and Irish, 17% Danish and otherwise “broadly north-western European”. I felt a resounding ambivalence about the results, including some disappointment that I had not discovered a newfound heritage – a piece of information that would give my identity new dimension.

But also:

My father’s side of the family is meticulous about tracking our ancestry, with records that hold the name of the exact small village in Ireland our ancestors hail from.

Those results often can’t narrow down to exact countries so it says he’s 63% British and Irish. Seeing as his fathers family has records of being from a small Irish town it’s likely he’s more Irish that British, not that it means anything if you’re actually American anyway.

I see your point but do you really have that level of complexity on the fediverse?

You pick an instance, create an account and then browse; much like you would pick an email provider, create an account, and email your friends.

Sure if you’re setting up your own domain for email, or configuring a mail client to work with your email provider, then you have to deal with these things but in my opinion the analogy works reasonably well. Maybe I am being dense.

It’s wild that no one ever had a problem with this with email and yet this is apparently so confusing they abandon it.

I imagine the likely conclusion of it would come up with would be something like “decrease the size of the human population”.