I'm not that great at APIs. Is client_id something you have to register with reddit? So you can't, for example have a client_id per user? What if you as the

I'm not that great at APIs. Is client_id something you have to register with reddit? So you can't, for example have a client_id per user? What if you as the app maker forced all your users who want to use your app to go register for their free personal client_id for their own personal API use, and then you have them give that client_id to the app along with their OAuth with they log in? I am just trying to understand why a third party app can't just be a "software shell" that individual users can use to access reddit through their own personal free API limits as if they were just some individual accessing reddit through the API.