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? privsecfoss ( @privsecfoss@feddit.dk ) Free and Open Source Software • edit-21 year ago message-square311fedilinkarrow-up1197
arrow-up1197message-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 ( @privsecfoss@feddit.dk ) Free and Open Source Software • edit-21 year ago message-square311fedilink
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-square mim ( @mim@lemmy.sdf.org ) linkfedilink31•1 year 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-square Creat ( @Creat@discuss.tchncs.de ) linkfedilink4•1 year 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-square argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) linkfedilink4•1 year 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.