This is my hope too. For Lemmy to be successful we need third party apps that are just as high quality as the Reddit ones were. The desktop version is good, but most people want a great app, myself included.

The scalability is something id like to know as well

Same… why would I use a smaller instance when the bigger one has more stuff on it? Maybe I just don’t understand this instance thing properly, it all just feels so fragmented

Not entirely sure how it would work honestly