100
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by privsecfoss@feddit.dk to c/foss@beehaw.org

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(?)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

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

[-] privsecfoss@feddit.dk 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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".

[-] mim@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] mjgood91@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

I have a degree in CS... actually spent some time implementing email protocol as part of a class to send test messages through I think websockets in Java or something.

I ain't touching that shit. I'll more than happily let my domain name provider manage that for me so I can focus on ~~bigger and better things~~ going through yet another Civilization 5 Vox Populi campaign.

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (4 replies)
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
100 points (100.0% liked)

Free and Open Source Software

17550 readers
63 users here now

If it's free and open source and it's also software, it can be discussed here. Subcommunity of Technology.


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS