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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Apollo for lemmy would be great, and it wouldn't be too hard for Christian to rewrite it to work with lemmy. Heck, people have written proxies which proxy the reddit oauth API to lemmy, so it would be as easy as running one of those proxies and replacing a URL, really.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's over simplified. Even if they change the data source. Lemmy and reddit have different data structures and the UI would also have to be modified

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

definitely, but it's good enough for a start, while he develops a more comprehensive application

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The difference in data models and APIs, combined with the amount of features Apollo supported would likely make it a fairly large task.

But that aside, he mentioned in an article recently that he doesn’t have an appetite to pivot the app towards Lemmy or another third party: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759180/reddit-protest-private-apollo-christian-selig-subreddit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The difference in data models and APIs, combined with the amount of features Apollo supported would likely make it a fairly large task.

I'm aware, but there have been efforts to do this, which is what I was referring to:

https://github.com/derivator/tafkars/tree/main/tafkars-lemmy

But that aside, he mentioned in an article recently that he doesn’t have an appetite to pivot the app towards Lemmy or another third party

aww that sucks :-/ maybe he should just put the code on github and release it as FOSS then if he doesn't want to work on it