mim comments on 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?

[–] mim@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 3 points 3 years ago

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.

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