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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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[–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use Feeder for Android and view everything from there. Notifies me of new posts. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/

For like reddit I do https://teddit.net/r/[subreddit]?api&type=rss

For twitter I do https://nitter.net/[username]/rss

Can display things in groups or all together. Lists them chronologically. No need for an account. No need to visit the site.