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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

RSS was absolutely the shit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The Thunderbird desktop mail client is far better (feature-rich, stable, interoperable) than any webmail or phone app mail client I've ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

XMPP is very underappreciated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

audacity. that shit was mature in the 1990s.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

vi, lynx, mutt, and of course X11 > wayland

though also controversially, I'll take systemD over sysVinit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My distaste for systemd has been replaced by my distaste for netplan.