that’s not because you’re using boost twice, that’s because the API doesn’t work anymore.

That was something I forgot to mention because I thought you already knew it.

you can get around there by making yourself the moderator of a random subreddit since the API is apparently free for moderators

I’ve a feeling that the intention was to allow moderators to build custom tools.

or you can use revanced to modify the boost for reddit app

Changing the API key sounds like something interesting that I had never heard of. Mind blown! 🤯 That finally answered my question!!

While I could do that, Reddit’s APIs reminded me of Evernote’s APIs as both lack access to certain features, for example Reddit’s API doesn’t allow access to Reddit Chat and direct image and video uploads, while Evernote’s API doesn’t allow access to Evernote Tasks, Evernote Home, calendar integration, and certain content embed types.

As someone who has used the regular modern Reddit Web UI, I did find some settings to make the official Reddit mobile client just borderline usable, and that then allows me to occasionally use it to participate in communities that are not available on the Lemmy network. Some of those settings match my Boost settings and include setting the theme to ‘Midnight (AMOLED)’, changing the default view to ‘Classic’, turning on ‘Reduce animations’, turning off ‘Saved image attribution’ (IIRC it removes the Reddit watermark), and ‘Autoplay’ to ‘Never’.

Some of those communities unavailable on Lemmy include communities for certain brands of products, stuff like the e-reader and fan-fiction communities that have low traffic equivalents on the network, and while I can’t currently think of any, but that could eventually change with a future multiplatform (originally only YouTube) network of publications I’m working on where I plan to have a dedicated cloud instance just for Fediverse services (multiple services - Lemmy, Mastodon, PeerTube, Castopod, and more) for a significant portion of its social media presence, and like some Linux-focused Odysee and PeerTube channels, promote those platforms, especially considering that most of the publications in that project wouldn’t be technology focused. I’d then also need to figure out if it’s possible to have something like HootSuite/Owly or Sprout Social but with support for multiple Fediverse services on user-defined instances.

Edit: when I joined Reddit, it was in 2018 and they were just beginning to roll out their modern Web UI, so I had the old UI for a while. When I joined my first 2 Lemmy instances (Lemmy World for my main account and Beehaw for an account dedicated to that), I intentionally signed up on a specific date just to have my account creation dates match up with that of my Reddit account but 6 years apart because the Reddit date was the same day as that of when a significant life-changing moment took place, so I knew about Lemmy for some time but waited to join as I wanted that date that has sentimental value to me.