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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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[-] raccoona_nongrata@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago

The irony is, I pirated Photoshop when I was young and poor, and now that I'm older and can afford to pay $500-$1000 on software I know I'll use, I still refuse because I hate subscription models.

So I still pirate it out of the principle, despite buying plenty of other software.

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