Boost confirms switching to being a fediverse app after the Reddit app shutdown.
Reddit Migration@kbin.social – 300 points – reddit.com
Right now it's going to be for Lemmy, but the fediverse is still getting a fantastic app.
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Why is everyone developing apps for Lemmy and not Kbin?
kbin lacks an API with an equivalent feature set. Ernest is aware of this and it's on the bug tracker. Any working apps for kbin are using site scraping as a temporary workaround. In layman's terms it means the app developer is doing a lot of extra work that will mostly get thrown away when the API rework is complete. Artemis is the only one currently doing this off the top of my head.
The developer of Pixelfed, @dansup, is working on a kbin app as well.
Our time will come
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Tbf you can see some kbin stuff from lemmy either through desktop or a mobile app, but Sync for Lemmy is planned to have kbin support too, but we'll see.
I read somewhere on here that Kbin doesn't have an API available right now and that Artemis is making their own API through scraping. That'd play a big role if it's true. I also wouldn't be surprised if migration numbers were skewed towards Lemmy either.
Scraping is hard on a server though. You gotta download the entire page and all its data instead of just the info/action you requested. That's one of the reasons other websites bother to make APIs, so bots and others DON'T start just scraping them.