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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] 29 points 1 year ago (8 children)

You forgot the biggest most originalist one of all. Email.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Yes, often overlooked. And, I hear, almost impossible to selfhost these days without a degree in CS, because "we block all non big tech e-mail providers".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Probably even with a CS degree.

It's just a hassle to maintain, and too mission critical to have it go down.

I wonder if the same won't happen with the fediverse, if we let some instances get too large.

[–] Arnaldur 1 points 1 year ago

Why would the instances isolate? They don't seem to have as much incentive to rent seek as big tech.

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