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In your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives? (feddit.dk)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by privsecfoss@feddit.dk to c/foss@beehaw.org

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I'll start:

RSS and blogs, news vs. social media
XMPP vs. WhatsApp/FB messenger/Snapchat
IRC vs. Matrix, Teams, Discord etc.
Forums vs. Social media, Reddit, Lemmy(?)

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[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oof, that's rough. (Paragraphs 3-4, I mean.) Thanks, I appreciate the info. At the very least, it'll be a good starting-off point. :)

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The other thing I would advise is reading RFC 1855: Netiquette, section 3.0 (One-to-many communication) and 3.1.3 (NetNews guidelines), as anyone still hanging out in the discussion groups is likely to be an ancient being like me who gets hung up on things like quoting protocol.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

anyone still hanging out in the discussion groups is likely to be an ancient being like me

Wait, that makes it sound like Usenet is dying... Is it really that empty? :(