Really, asking "what should replace Facebook" is putting things the wrong way around.
A more interesting way to ask the question is, "what did Facebook replace."
People used to build their own websites. People used to have blogs. People used USENET which was truly distributed and un-censorable.
Facebook and Google took the open internet and open standards and monetized and made everything crappy. Enough of that. Nothing should replace Facebook, it's done, stick a fork in it.
@hhardy01 @slipstream Messages like this exact one are what I'm referring to. To me, this reads as "You know what we should do? Just kick 90% of the folk on the Internet off."
I think there's this misconception of what the Internet was like pre-Facebook - it was not the perfect frontier of FOSS solutions that y'all are building toward now, but a medley FOSS stopgaps to heal the dot-com burst. Not to be too harsh, but the linked toot reads as almost revisionist.
@emsenn @slipstream
I started sysadmin during the ARPAnet when it was a military project but ironically it was freeer and less crappy. There was no FB because no commercial use. Also there was yet no www.
So yes I have some nostalgia for that period and as an OG sysadmin you aren't wrong to call me out for having an elitist attitude.
On the other hand I have spent my entire life defending the freedom of the net and making it more accessible and hopefully keeping it as nonevil as possible.