# Facebook-like Feed? **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Created:** [May 8, 2019, 6:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/facebook-like-feed/117204 "2019-05-08T18:58:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![oshyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/oshyan/32/212644_2.png) [@oshyan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/oshyan)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/facebook-like-feed/117204/8 "2022-06-08T20:57:44Z")
I recently spent a couple of days digging into the currently available alternative/self-host social media platforms, Mastodon (too much like Twitter IMO), Diaspora, Friendica, and a few others. Mastodon was the most mature, but again too Twitter-like. There is nothing that is as polished and functional as Discourse is in terms of the _core experience_, flexibility, etc, as far as I have seen. And so to me it actually makes perfect sense to want to use Discourse for social media-esque purposes, and I too find it odd and rather frustrating that there seems to be a persistent dislike for that kind of engagement or “model” here in Meta, and among the CDCK team to some degree. Here’s the thing: forums were never an _inherently_ “civil” form of discussion. They are arguably more biased towards _long form_, but that is not inherently civil. CDCK made great effort to _make_ them “civil”, and promote good interactions, even if they’re “just” a Like/Heart. If the view of CDCK is that social media interactions have some negative aspects, why not try to _fix_ that with clever design, features, functionality, etc. and make the space better like was done with forums? In the end these are just different styles of interaction and potential _types_ of “civil discourse”. I think it’s a mistake to simply write-off an entirely, extremely popular method of interaction just because it _tends_ to have some downsides. There are also _wonderful_ things that happen in social media, amazing things that, in my experience, happen _less_ in Discourse because of some of its design decisions. If expanding the model to encompass social media-like options (e.g. mainly a “feed”-style view) would fundamentally disadvantage or hurt the baseline forum model that Discourse currently uses, then OK, that should be the focus and such expansion should be avoided. But I don’t think that’s actually the case. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/facebook-like-feed/117204)._