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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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[-] cyd@vlemmy.net 8 points 1 year ago

Emacs. Still the best way to edit any kind of text in any context.

[-] pbmonster@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I found it really funny when the "second brain / knowledge base" apps (like Obidian, Joplin, Logseq) started to explode semi-recently. "Organize your thoughts! Tag everything! Elegance through simplicity! Only use markdown!"

Yeah, I get it, orgmode is a really good idea. No need to re-invent it half a dozen more times to celebrate it's 20th birthday...

[-] cyd@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago

And one of these days, someone will rediscover the magic of having a uniform editing environment for manipulating text in multiple different contexts.

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