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Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 11 points 9 months ago (4 children)

PieFed has features that even Reddit lacks, like combining together comments across all cross-posts (and plans to tweak that still further, like add the ability to a community to opt-out of it, though I find that it helps with community discovery).

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Historically, Usenet clients tended to respond to both groups in response to articles posted to multiple newsgroups.

    This tended to result in trolls doing things like posting "I'm in the market for a computer. Which is better, PC or Mac?" to comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy and comp.os.mac.advocacy with the intention of starting flamewars.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    That exact flamewar will never not be funny!! 🤣 So sayeth we all. 🖥️💻

    Bc the answer will always be Mac if money were of zero consideration, Linux if someone lives in the real world, and only use Windows if there is both a gun to your head at that moment and a very specific game that you wanted to play requires it, and even then try emulation first.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Well damn. That sounds.....very nice.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    It is actually! It is one of the features that I love the most about it, it saves so many clicks, plus the interruption of the wait time, especially for those posts that appear in like 9 communities (which for some reason isn't nearly as rare as I might have expected, even though in those cases most communities will have like 0-1 comments, even if some others have >100).

    That and maybe the the translation of all post links into relative ones on your local instance are perhaps my favorites of the recent additions. And the ability to read deleted posts instead of a page that looks more like a server error that doesn't even acknowledge that the post used to exist at some point in time. There's a lot to have to choose from!:-)

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