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
    13·
    2 years 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·
      2 years ago

      What would the hurdles be for normal, non-mod users? Once you sign up for an instance, isn’t serving content from all and letting users subscribe to communities pretty much the same flow? I don’t see why the fact that these “subs” are on different servers couldn’t be transparent to the client.

      The client I use – Relay – doesn’t even have a sign up flow, and I suspect could transparently serve Lemmy content with a good translation API.