Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?
I have a problem with this fundamental thinking of what &quot;site&quot; should replace it.<p>This is exactly why I&#x27;m an ActivityPub geek, because it&#x27;s not one site, it&#x27;s sites. It&#x27;s many softwares and many sites. Now I&#x27;m not claiming it will replace twitter, or that it&#x27;s easy to use for most people. I can say for a fact that it is not, I see twitter users come over confused all the time.<p>But regardless I think the concept of federation being available to any software like Wordpress or Nextcloud is truly something we should treasure. It might not replace twitter, but it might actually turn the entire internet into one big social media federation.<p>My mind keeps putting ActivityPub into the context of the late 90s and 2000s when I was registered on countless message boards. Imagine if all those message boards could inter-communicate using a common protocol. That&#x27;s where ActivityPub could lead us.<p>The usability aspect can be worked on, it can be worked around. The gain in internet freedom is worth the effort.<p>Right now it&#x27;s clearly aimed at slightly more adept users. But imagine if Joe Sixpack could login to the modern equivalent of AOL, post a message, and that message is federated across hundreds of softwares and hundreds and thousands of sites and eventually Joe gets a reply from someone halfway around the world using a completely different software. That is what I find magical.