Via this Lemmy post I just bumped into this: An Open Letter Calling for the Resignation of Eugen Rochko (Gargron) from Mastodon Development.
Posting here because the broader discussion on the topic is very relevant and this is a brainstorming area where we can think them over. I hope we can - in a very constructive way - find ways to improve on some of the pain points that are brought up, and possible others that are as yet unnamed.
Also: Note that I do not endorse the open letter.
I never quite understood the obsession many people seem to have with apps. Especially nowadays when many apps are more or less websites wrapped in react-native or such anyways.
Alternative front-ends like Pleroma is doing, or maybe a multi-account PWA client like https://pinafore.social/ seem the better way forward.
So I kind of agree that server fediverse software should probably more cleanly seperate the front-end from the back-end and that will also help with apps, but the possibility for communities to add or customize their own web front-end is probably the more important aspect of it.
There’s more developments that go towards this, like GoToSocial, which is backend-only server platform.