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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] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Problem is that mostly those communities develop naturally and then there is a point where people join a discord and search years worth of discussion in multiple channels for some info.
This could of course have been a forum with threads all along but then users would have to create an account for all those niche forums.... I get how this happens, but it still sucks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And that is where activitypub is a godsend.

[–] Arnaldur 1 points 1 year ago

I'm thinking of a hacky solution where we have llms create a knowledge base for scraped discord data. Could be useful.