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Sheeesh, did reddit have any new feature that isn't monetisation (that's anti-feature actually) in the last 5+ years? I've never thought of reddit in terms of new features because I was distracted with content when I was over there but now in the retrospect things were very stale.

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PieFed adds multi-reddit, multi-community feature

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PieFed definitely feels rough still and has no apps yet but an official one is being worked on to come together with API that's also something that wasn't there before. I've only started using PieFed recently and not as extensively but overall it's alright even if there are some quirks to iron out right now. Feeds feature is definitely something that will give me a reason to switch properly when it comes to browsing (when the app with support for them comes out). There are some cool unique features like deciding from whom the downvotes to a community should be accepted and following threads/posts/communities/users for notifications when something happens. Although it's not recursive so you won't get notified of responses to a response to the comment/post you're following. Now to that list feeds just got added as well making PieFed more attractive.

Just like it is with fediverse you will experience some federation hiccups but idk the scale of anything as I'm yet to get a good understanding of PieFed's UX.

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I have blocked all users from lemmy.ml - only the Connect and Sync apps allow such a thing on Lemmy, otherwise the pathetic "instance block" (really a community muting) feature only promises to do such but then fails to deliver.

I think summit MAY allow this as well but not sure if it works. I will be definitely trying it out in a moment to block .ml and maybe some other instances. It has 4 string/regex filters available:

1.) Keywords filters - Available in both posts and comments filter sections.
2.) Instance filters - Same as above.
3.) Community filters - Only in the post section which makes sense.
4.) User filters - In both posts and comments filters sections.

It has 5 toggles for post types too which I find useful:

1.) Link posts.
2.) Image posts.
3.) Video posts.
4.) Text posts.
5.) NSFW posts - Which is independent from the others AFAIK where all types are bundled under it. The other toggles are for SFW posts where you have more flexibility. Or at least that's my understanding as I've started using the app only a few days ago.

While I'm at it and advertising I will also mention that you can create custom feeds with up to 30 communities (it fetches each community using API so the limit is there to not ddos lemmy) to cater your feed further. It has a few other fun features like history of your visited feeds/communities/posts etc. where you can revisit something after you move somewhere else.

I hope features like those will become more widespread because they're so powerful at making your feed better. I have much much muuuuuuuch higher hopes for piefed in that regard because the lemmy devs don't care about making the experience better regardless of whether you're an user or an mod. And even in those rare occasion they implement something they do it in a suboptimal way which is disappointing in it's own way.

Edit: Sadly it seems the filtering of comments only collapses it with text saying that it's filtered instead of hiding it completely.

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