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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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[-] Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

Discord servers are also closed communities which makes it impossible to search for info through search engine

[-] Nyoelle@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Yep. It is a bit funny, and sad to see how we are regressing, despite the technology going forward...

[-] dudewitbow@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

There are opt in bots in deveopment that allows individual servers to be indexed for search engine visibility

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

Which you just know nobody is going to bother with installing on their guild.

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