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(?)
  • xavier666@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    i3wm

    It’s now more than a decade old and considered feature-complete 2 years back. But the basic usage is still the same since its initial launch. No matter how many versions of Windows or Gnome or KDE come and go, I use i3 in the same as I did when it launched. I don’t need “new” features because the existing features are more than enough.

    • Panamanap@feddit.de
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      2 years ago

      This. After the initial learning for i3wm I never looked back.

      And I dread the times where I have to use something else (work environment…)

    • flauschke@feddit.de
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      2 years ago

      sway is the wayland based modern alternative that I use (and prefer). It does not do anything flashy and most i3 config options work just the same.

  • navDend0@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    vi, lynx, mutt, and of course X11 > wayland

    though also controversially, I’ll take systemD over sysVinit

    • ISOmorph@feddit.de
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      2 years ago

      It so is. The only protocol that might beat it once it gets a desktop client is SimpleX

  • Black616Angel@feddit.de
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    2 years ago

    Forums and Wikis vs. Discord

    Yes I know, they shouldn’t serve the same purpose, but oftentimes nowadays people communities use discord when they should use a forum or a wiki.

    • crius@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      Discord is not even remotely comparable and whoever think that it is (not saying you OP) don’t understand the basics on how internet works.

      To put it simply:

      You can’t search the content of a discord server on the publicly available internet. You need to be on discord and for that, the server need to continue to exists. To top it all, things you might search are written all over the place (channels, threads, etc) and the search is clearly the search is a “chat” search, as it should be, thus terrible to actually find what you need.

      • Black616Angel@feddit.de
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        2 years ago

        Problem is that mostly those communities develop naturally and then there is a point where people join a discord and search years worth of discussion in multiple channels for some info.
        This could of course have been a forum with threads all along but then users would have to create an account for all those niche forums… I get how this happens, but it still sucks.