All fair enough. I’m not real convinced about this though:
My guess is: A popular app will implement this feature and it will become mandatory for everyone else who wants downloads.
I suspect some app does do this already, some definitely have ways to interact with specific instances while logged out of them. I have 6 lemmy apps or PWAs installed just to keep up with new developments there… but I couldn’t tell you the differences in community discovery between them because the federation and instance discovery problems make it unrelentingly terrible on all of them when compared to lemmyverse.net, which already supports browsing communities by instance.
While I would love for in-app discovery to be good, the journey from where we are to where lemmyverse.net is is long enough that I don’t really see any intermediate hacks as being app-defining.
All fair enough. I’m not real convinced about this though:
I suspect some app does do this already, some definitely have ways to interact with specific instances while logged out of them. I have 6 lemmy apps or PWAs installed just to keep up with new developments there… but I couldn’t tell you the differences in community discovery between them because the federation and instance discovery problems make it unrelentingly terrible on all of them when compared to lemmyverse.net, which already supports browsing communities by instance.
While I would love for in-app discovery to be good, the journey from where we are to where lemmyverse.net is is long enough that I don’t really see any intermediate hacks as being app-defining.