100% agree. I really hope Apps will bridge this divide and allow a seamless experience across instances that have defederated. Heavy fragmentation may stop lemmy from succeeding altogether. The biggest draw for any social network is numbers. Small isolated instances will just naturally evaporate most of the time.

I might start my own instance with the policy to never de-federate.

Boost was the App for me that made browsing Reddit bearable. I hope to be able to use it again for lemmy soon :)