thinking um "out loud". Looking at the reddit api, there isn't that much, once you ignore some of extra features like live, friends, flair etc...<p>It might an interesting idea to just have an api website and people can just plug in their own front ends and use it how they wish. apps more or less just switch their hostname.<p>other then trying to fund the infra for an api, it seems easy. clearly paying isn't an option and with all text there's no ads to show.<p>lemmy at a glance looks confusing, i don't want to join a bunch of mini reddits.