someone is working on a reddit api compatibility shim so reddit apps could connect to Lemmy without redesigning their apps

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

“Tafkars stands for “The API formerly known as…”, is written in Rust and is pronounced like “tough cars”. Tafkars is an API proxy that allows apps to talk to Lemmy through a familiar API from a kinder time. The hope is that this will make it easy for app developers to support Lemmy with only minimal code changes.” @fediverse

  • bdonvr@lemmy.rogers-net.com
    6·
    1 year ago

    I don’t think an unmodified Reddit app would be able to effectively browse the fediverse no matter how good a translation API is, but it could mean a lot LESS work for an app designer making a lemmy app.

    • zalack@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      God I hope so. No knock against the developers, because it’s a young app and they are improving it almost every day, but Jerboa is really hard to use coming from Relay.

      u/DBrady just has excellent UX/UI design sense.

    • Einar@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      Hey. Don’t dis my first love. 😊

      I still have Infinity installed and will miss it sorely. It has some features Jerboa is still missing. But I am hoping some of these 3rd party devs will find a love for Lemmy. If Lemmy can hold a growing community.

    • maynarkh@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      Better have a smorgasbord of different apps, it’s great if we can get a decent competition going.