One thing that bluesky did very well was abstracting the decentralisation (i know, its not really decentralised, bear with me) was having “apps” be centralised. What if we just pointed people towards a lemmy.app thing and that had a server as default?
Alexandrite.app does this, but it defaults to lemmy.world which is a bit of a dealbreaker.
Edit: By “app” I mean client.
If what you mean by centralized apps is apps having a default website, or a hard-coded website that it accesses, then that’s also going to lead to centralizing the website.
The fediverse is just the web. It’s not really suited to an app-first model of operation. Like, imagine having a blog-viewer app that only let you read one blog. We see this kind of behaviour from the business world, and people kind of hate it.
The only reason it would be different here is if the network collapses, and if it does, it’s going to collapse into lemmy.world.
Which, apparently, is a “deal breaker”.
Half of the posts on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com are about hexbear or .ml
The other half is about LW
hexbear: 1.9k users per month .ml: 2.3k users per month lemm.ee: 3.8k users per month .world: 17.2k users per monthUnwanted centralization is a fair enough complaint, but honestly us normies are mostly just… normaling.
I meant one like bluesky, it has a default instance, but you can login with another.