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by joecot 1098 days ago
I've been very much hoping that Apollo and the rest just pivot to being amazing Lemmy/kbin clients, with multiple instances pre-configured to use. That would be the biggest coup of all. Which is exactly what I thought had happened when I saw a title of "Apollo Remastered".

'Oh, you're going to price us all out? You don't care about third party client users? That's fine, I guess you won't care if hundreds of thousands of users suddenly have a client for a different site installed when they go to open reddit.'
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neardeaf 1098 days ago
Same here, I clicked on the link so fast So far I really like lemmy/Kbin, but the content and mobile apps I sorely miss quality-wise.
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evolve2k 1098 days ago
A project 'tafkars' (The Api Formerly Known As..), pronounced 'tuff cars', has started that's designed to be a proxy for the reddit api that can be tied into lemmy etc. The idea being that all existing apps that rely on the reddit api can be redirected.

They are looking for contributors, either folks who know Rust or otherwise just happy to do some legwork sniffing around the reddit api.

https://github.com/derivator/tafkars/issues/1

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joshstrange 1097 days ago
A moon shot if you will…

But yeah, I’d love for Apollo to do what some Twitter clients did switching to mastodon, it would make my transition off Reddit so much easier and nicer.

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