And amazingly, I'm not the only one who realizes this! There are slides (near the 40-min mark) in Cory Slep's presentation that address a need for mobile federation!

I looked for a go-fed library equivalent written in Swift, and didn't find anything. I have yet to dig into what the official Mastodon iOS app is doing, although I've bookmarked it's repo:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios

...I didn't see anything in the list of acknowledgements.

6/x