[tayo42]

thinking um "out loud". Looking at the reddit api, there isn't that much, once you ignore some of extra features like live, friends, flair etc...

It might an interesting idea to just have an api website and people can just plug in their own front ends and use it how they wish. apps more or less just switch their hostname.

other then trying to fund the infra for an api, it seems easy. clearly paying isn't an option and with all text there's no ads to show.

lemmy at a glance looks confusing, i don't want to join a bunch of mini reddits.

[xtracto]

I've tried a couple of reddit alternatives, but all fall short. The one that was more or less ok was lobster.rs , but the founder/owner is kind of aggressive: It was funny how he got mad at some random tweet I made once, which actually I wrote "for" lobster.rs

[tayo42]

I wouldn't be surprised if most reddit alternatively have tough communities. The web is so centralized on a few sites that if your pushed out to an alternative your likely a real outlier personality personality.

When reddit got big there were still a lot of smaller forum and other internet communities. People were part of alot