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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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[-] leetnewb@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

xmpp has clients doing voice and video - it has for years. It is p2p and falls over in some nat to nat situations, which is where stun/turn come in on the server. Check out jmp.chat - they built a voip phone service using xmpp clients.

[-] monobot@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I know they exists, but never got to the usability point we need.m, or even if it did it was too late.

[-] leetnewb@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

If a sizable chunk of the Reddit community can move to an alpha/beta grade link aggregator platform that can't handle the load because we believe in the decentralization or the instance's mission or the overall concept of federation, why is it too late for the community to re-adopt a mature messaging platform that mirrors those ambitions?

[-] ShittyKopper@lemmy.w.on-t.work 1 points 1 year ago

Because messaging of that sort needs contacts and Redditors (including me tbf) don't have friends.

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