# What would it take to replace Facebook with Discourse?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-would-it-take-to-replace-facebook-with-discourse/84060
**Category:** Community Building
**Tags:** facebook-migration
**Created:** [28.Март.2018 18:56:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-would-it-take-to-replace-facebook-with-discourse/84060 "2018-03-28T18:56:02Z")
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### Author: ![downey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/downey/32/166878_2.png) [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [28.Март.2018 22:04:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-would-it-take-to-replace-facebook-with-discourse/84060/16 "2018-03-28T22:04:09Z")

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> [@McBlu](#):
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> A big leap for discourse might be to link discourse forums as wanted with some type of feed.

There’s this …

> [@Tools to "aggregate" many Discourse forums?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tools-to-aggregate-many-discourse-forums/81899):
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> The good news: Discourse is popular, perhaps the [fastest-growing](https://trends.builtwith.com/cms/forum-software) forum software out there. The bad news: I now have a ton of Discourse forums that I need to keep tabs on, on a most-daily basis. Does anyone else struggle with this information management challenge? At one point there was a working [Chrome extension called “Discourse Forum Notifications”](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/discourse-forum-notificat/okmkhbdimfnmdhpclfbamachjcpcgcmi) that helped (a little bit), but it was last updated 13 months ago, and doesn’t seem to work any more. And the “official” Android app allo…

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> [@McBlu](#):
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> One way would be to follow particular people as Mastadon does

If the original global username idea from Discourse Hub were reworked to be more federated like Mastodon, maybe watching/following users across Discourse instances would be possible. Of course, this isn’t possible on a local level yet, either…

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