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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 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Nyoelle 9 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 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.