I’m not sure this is the right community.
I’ve been hoping for a TUI frontend for Lemmy for a while, but unfortunately none came out and I’ve decided to build a proof of concept on my own.
It’s written in python with pythorhead, blessed and chafa.py and it’s quite janky.
I would not recommend working on two GUI’s at once, but if you build it in a way you can use different frameworks for it, the maker of Rich also makes a nice TUI framework API called Textual.
Here’s some projects made with it for a sample of what it’s usage can look like: https://www.textualize.io/projects/
I believe it does not use curses at all.