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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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[–] king_dead@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

RSS was absolutely the shit

[–] Sordid@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do people not use it anymore? I still do. I follow a boatload of different youtube channels, webcomics, blogs, etc. If there's some other way besides RSS to have all of those updates show up on a single page, I don't know it.

[–] Kaldo@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what I used twitter for tbh. Since everyone is on it it's easy to follow people, get instant updates and maybe even discover something new through the people you follow and their likes. It's really a shame it went to shit, it was the lurkers perfect tool, especially when it comes to artists or content creators.

[–] Kajo@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not everyone is on twitter, but lots (all?) of Content Management Systems and blogs have a RSS feed.

As an academic, I'm syndicated to several labs and research groups which have their own websites, but don't care about being visible on Twitter.

[–] makanimike@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

do birds fly? do ducks duck?