Did you notice that on Lemmy you’re not able to use any alternative apps either?
… I’ll see myself out now.
There are no alternative apps yet. You are witnessing ground floor construction work. So, pick up a hammer and help out
There are at least two alternatives already: lemmur and jerboa. In addition the federation probably makes it practically impossible to block other apps and web frontends be etc. And you can run and use an old web front to your heart’s content.
you aren’t able to use alternative app because there is no alternative app apart from jarboa on Android
But also, with the fediverse structure, there is no way to lock out alternative apps. Functionally, all apps are third party.
Yeah but that’s because it’s still very early