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(?)
  • mim@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • Creat@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
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        1 year 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.