It's so fast!!
Now, if only there was a way to browse Reddit and HN using 'tin' or 'nn'.
I have too many projects, one that I shelved was "Reddit-as-a-filesystem", because I was messing around with Dokany [1] at the time.
The same kind of thinking (Reddit->FUSE->Files) could be applied to a Reddit -> Gopher proxy. To reduce the cost of the project, I'd make it self-host the Gopher server on the user's PC and make the API calls from there, rather than setting up gopher-hackernews.xyz:70
My gut feeling is that the slowest part of this would be the API call to HN [2] or Reddit [3].
[2]: https://github.com/HackerNews/API