I'd already been working on a Tildes app for a while before knowing Reddit was going to kill third-party apps. I didn't have time to work on Lemmy and Tildes and RIF.
Since Tildes is different enough, it made sense at the time to have both a Tildes and RIF app which didn't have too much overlap; their communities are quite different. Lemmy and RIF are more similar to each other.
Who knows; after I release my Tildes app, I could work on other apps too.
No current plans for LIF, but I suppose it wouldn't hurt for me to squat on this community... Thanks for holding it.
Don't get your hopes up though! Seriously.
I am looking forward to [email protected] though, made by the Sync for Reddit dev. We were rivals as Reddit app devs, but lately I found he's pretty chill and I'll be following his Lemmy app.