The PWA works great when loaded into Firefox.

I have to ask: why does it seem like most people are clamoring to hand their account data over to yet another third party? Apps are convenient, but they’re not necessary.

Use kbin to browse the whole fediverse.

It has image hosting.

https://kbin.social/media/cache/resolve/post_thumb/60/f1/60f1d48d2af27f138aa7e01ddb1c11290847f1f636b77dbe981e3c191556ddf2.gif

That and to prevent megaleeching by scraping. It’s easier and cheaper to purchase curated lists of IPs than it is to bootstrap a tool to ban them based upon bandwidth.

All of your gripes sound like a lack of patience, or a need for the corporate instances of social media to be replicated in the fediverse.

DIY isn’t for everyone. It will have rough edges. It will lack things until you build them.

You want people to go somewhere? Make it worth their time. This is like burning man. Show up to a blank slate and make it fun/interesting/sustainable.

If that’s not for you… well… perhaps you should stop trying to square peg this round hole.