privsecfoss@feddit.dk to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org · edit-22 years agoIn 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?message-squaremessage-square235fedilinkarrow-up1102file-text
arrow-up1102message-squareIn 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?privsecfoss@feddit.dk to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org · edit-22 years agomessage-square235fedilinkfile-text
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(?)
minus-squaremim@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up22·2 years agoAgree on RSS. Don’t have enough experience with XMPP. IRC is not a secure protocol, I think matrix takes the cake there. (although I really miss IRC) Lemmy and Reddit do have an upvote feature and aggregation across different topics / communites, which I think it’s what old school forums lacked.
minus-squareCreat@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoThe real problem with IRC had always been that it didn’t really scale. It’s fine for a few hundred people, but eventually shit just breaks.
minus-squareargv_minus_one@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoUndernet in its heyday supported tens of thousands of people. But yeah, a system that relays absolutely all messages to absolutely all nodes is going to fall over under the weight of billions of users.
Agree on RSS.
Don’t have enough experience with XMPP.
IRC is not a secure protocol, I think matrix takes the cake there. (although I really miss IRC)
Lemmy and Reddit do have an upvote feature and aggregation across different topics / communites, which I think it’s what old school forums lacked.
The real problem with IRC had always been that it didn’t really scale. It’s fine for a few hundred people, but eventually shit just breaks.
Undernet in its heyday supported tens of thousands of people. But yeah, a system that relays absolutely all messages to absolutely all nodes is going to fall over under the weight of billions of users.