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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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[–] sturgax 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guess for me it may be:

Plain ol' Static webpages with little to no JS vs Today's bloated webpages.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This. I couldn't agree more.

[–] ruplicant 2 points 1 year ago

yes! long live html and css wizards who don't need it for amazing web pages