I imagine it’s because of the interest a lot of people expressed. Not to mention, quite a few Reddit app devs already announced they’re creating Lemmy apps, and many of their users were happy about those announcements.

No idea. He didn’t say much at all up until very recently, when he made a post confirming that Boost for Reddit was shutting down.

As far as I knew, he had given the impression he wasn’t interested in migrating his app to Lemmy, but apparently that’s not the case!

He never said anything to my knowledge, the apollo dev said he discontinued it.

Hope Boost dev makes his app open source