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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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[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Usenet use to be great. Predated forums and Reddit. Frankly the threadiverse is just now going a bit back to that concept.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I miss the days when usenet was a standard part of most ISPs included offerings.

Hopefully the fediverse can get wnought traction to grow some vibrant communities like we used to enjoy in heyday of the old newsgroups.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

CompuServe was pretty good too but very expensive. So not somethimg I care to go back to.