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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 3 years ago* by 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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[–] 9 points 3 years ago (9 children)

Do people not use it anymore? I still do. I follow a boatload of different youtube channels, webcomics, blogs, etc. If there's some other way besides RSS to have all of those updates show up on a single page, I don't know it.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    That's what I used twitter for tbh. Since everyone is on it it's easy to follow people, get instant updates and maybe even discover something new through the people you follow and their likes. It's really a shame it went to shit, it was the lurkers perfect tool, especially when it comes to artists or content creators.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Not everyone is on twitter, but lots (all?) of Content Management Systems and blogs have a RSS feed.

    As an academic, I'm syndicated to several labs and research groups which have their own websites, but don't care about being visible on Twitter.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I'm not talking about CMS or blogs though, I mean individuals that are active on twitter. Redigit, the developer of Terraria doesn't have an RSS feed but is active on twitter. Valheim devs often post sneak peaks of upcoming updates on their personal twitter accounts. Rebecca, creative director of warframe is active on twitter. Lots of twitch streamers or youtubers don't have separate blog posts or sites, they just post on twitter about upcoming streams, videos or events. Webcomics and artists might have their own sites but generally its easier to discover new ones on twitter where they also often retweet other similar artists.

    It's probably different for academia and businesses but for me, a completely casual user that doesn't contribute to twitter and instead just has a highly curated feed of things he likes, twitter was perfect before they started filling the feed with random crap I'm not even following. It doesn't seem to me like RSS is a replacement for that.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    What's your setup? How do you aggregate different feeds to one page? Where do you find the feeds? I have so many RSS questions - everyone who uses it loves it and I want to understand it.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago*

    Feedly is a pretty user friendly reader (but not open source, unfortunately).

    All feed readers aggregate the results in one page if you want.

    Most websites provide a feed (even YouTube channels), but it's often hidden under the surface. You can inspect the page source, or you can pass the URL of the website to feedly (it's usually able to find it for you).

    The cool thing about RSS is that it's open. If you don't want to use a particular reader anymore, you can export your feeds as an opml file and import it in another reader. You're not locked in.

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