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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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[–] totallynotsocsa@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)

XMPP is very underappreciated.

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It so is. The only protocol that might beat it once it gets a desktop client is SimpleX

[–] ndr@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I’m glad you mentioned SimpleX. I think it’s a really cool and promising idea, yet hardly anyone knows about it :(

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