Likely not possible on iOS. Apple has too many restrictions. It works with lemmy because lemmy has a free API and doesn’t attempt to obscure it’s code. New reddit employs a ton of stuff to try and stop these types of efforts. Apple has a ton of restrictions surrounding code execution and browsers (all browsers have to use safari’s engine). That being said, I am not an iOS developer (outside of cross platform tooling), so it might be possible, but from what little I know of Apple’s policies, not likely.

That being said, I am thinking about the idea of a reddit proxy addon for lemmy, something that would expose r/* communities to lemmy via an API. This would primarily be of use for developers, but could potentially allow r/* communities to exist alongside lemmy communities, with the caveat that reddit users would not see comments. The proxy would actually scrape reddit for posts/comments, cache them in redis, and offer the cache up via a restful API, so it wouldn’t be realtime, but it would be a starting point.

You can use an app like Hermit to do that. It works because Reddit thinks it's a browser. I've heard that Reddit is planning on stopping browsers from accessing it also, but I don't remember the source, so I'm not sure if it's accurate or not.

You mean like mlem?

It's a question... Sort of? See rule #1.

Wefwef still uses the Lemmy API. It would still be subject to the same pricing farce as all other third-party apps. If you’re going to do that…why build a new app?