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(?)
  • Kichae@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’ll second IRC. I don’t need my chat to be e2ee, and encryption has made Matrix a much bigger pain in the ass than it’s worth to me.

    Forums, too, though I’m a big fan of the distributed social media space. Lemmy has an experimental front-end based on phpBB, and I would love to see someone take that idea and go whole hog on it to create proper federated forums.

    • alongwaysgone@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I understand why I should care about encryption, in theory. In practice, 90% of the time, I don’t. If I’m texting my kids ‘hey where are you?’ or my husband: what do you want for dinner?’ or a friend, ‘hey, come hang out!’ - I just don’t care. And putting up with all the hassles that come with encryption via matrix… It’s just, generally, far more hassle than it’s worth, IMHO.

    • a1studmuffin 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      The old style forums were great, but popular threads were pretty horrible to try and navigate. I’m sure we’ve all fallen victim to searching for important information in a forum thread with 750 pages. The Reddit-style collapsing comment tree is so much more manageable and allows for natural subtopics and conversion tangents to take place without derailing everyone else’s discussion.