I have read somewhere that somebody could manage to make lemmy work like the reddit api. So they theoretically change it in the old reddit third party apps.

I would love to see infinity in the race. Loved it.

Connect is laggy as hell for me. Boost is under development. I'm trying one called Thunder. It has a really clean UI and you can customise it. Check it out: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder