Thanks for the feedback, it's been genuinely helpful. I'll come up with something to post. I suppose if I make something people don't like, they can always make a pull request to change it.
I think we'd start with a medieval fantasy world. Its purpose would be to provide writers and RPG playerd with an in depth setting that isnt copyrighted. I want it to be a folk storytelling thing where all ideas are free to use and remix.
For a one-time purchase alternative there's Wonderdraft.
A super in depth software with world generation features is Worldographer (succesor to Hexographer). The maps are less pretty since theyre hex based but you can do lots of things like having different levels of detail, where a hex is converted into many smaller hexes in another editing layer.
Its like email. Gmail and yahoo mail talk to each other but have separate account databases and administrators. Both of these are general purpose instances so there isnt much difference. I think lemmy.ml is a little more left wing in its moderation.
Now i wanna know what the arr suite is