@dansup In general having a polished mobile app does help user growth, I don't think PeerTube has been "held back" by the lack of just a good app.
As for "surges" as experienced in Mastodon and Pixelfed, you know perfectly well it's not just about the quality of these platforms/products.
Personally I think PeerTube is fine where it is right now, but if you want to define it's success by metrics, then PeerTube's biggests problems are:
- YouTube
- Storage costs
- Content quality
It's only called official, and only exists, because new people were so used to the model created by Twitter, Facebook etc where a centralised company controls the network.
New people were going on app stores and searching for "mastodon" and not finding anything so they assumed it didn't have an app.
As far as I know, that is the main reason there even is an official app.
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