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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)

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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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[–] Nyoelle@beehaw.org 35 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Sadly, oftentimes, Forums are replaced by discord, despite... how different those are.

And, discord is inferior in so many ways. Not only you can't easily search for the content, you also need an account on centralized proprietary software, that also is quite resource heavy. Not to mention the privacy concerns.

[–] Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Discord servers are also closed communities which makes it impossible to search for info through search engine

[–] Nyoelle@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

Yep. It is a bit funny, and sad to see how we are regressing, despite the technology going forward...

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