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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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by privsecfoss@feddit.dk to c/foss@beehaw.org

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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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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 years ago

Sftp. At work we are switching to api and it sucks in comparison. Even it works its great but when it doesn't its harder to fix than sftp.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Those are protocols, not software.

[–] privsecfoss@feddit.dk 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah you're right. But I thought it would make sense, instead of specific RSS clients.

[–] privsecfoss@feddit.dk 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

One more: Network shares vs. clowd storage fx M365 and Google drive. Often the ekstra functionality isn't needed and just adds complexity. Plus the bandwidth is rarely the same. But It IS wHAt EvERyOne IS dOIng

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