also unrelated but the official lemmy app, jerboa, apparently publishes releases to the play store that are only compatible with the latest release of lemmy... so major servers that aren't updated to 0.18 yet are broken on it 
I think an influx of app devs will be a boon to the lemmyverse
That’s cool but can one of the iOS ones do the same? I love this site but I’m real tired of using a janky Safari web app
I don't think the iOS lemmy apps are that much less jank than the web app if they're anything like the android app, but with enough devs coming over from reddit maybe that won't be true for long.
Regardless, if someone on here with any iOS dev experience wants to fork mlem for a temporary solution, I would encourage them to do so, and feel free to DM me, I think I understand the primary compatibility issue and could offer some guidance on patching it.
I actually haven't even tried mlem with hexbear because I don't have an iphone, its possible though unlikely that it will just work. just be sure to use the full hexbear.net as the instance name