# 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:** [March 28, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-would-it-take-to-replace-facebook-with-discourse/84060 "2018-03-28T18:56:02Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 24
### Author: ![McBlu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcblu/32/91128_2.png) [@McBlu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/McBlu) #### Post date: [March 29, 2018, 4:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-would-it-take-to-replace-facebook-with-discourse/84060/24 "2018-03-29T16:42:12Z")
I think a lot of us in here would agree that turning Discourse into facebook culturally and functionally is a horrible idea. But reading this topic has got me thinking about one aspect of Facebook that could be the next step in the evolution of Discourse (and I see this topic of linking forums is nothing new). Linking across instances of Discourse. Just, wow. It could take the pooled, moderated, fact-checked knowledge up to a whole other level, bigger in scope and an extra draw for people setting up reputable forums or wanting to buy out Discourse for bucco bucks. I am sure there are very good reasons for not linking forums. Discourse staff knows what they are doing and have created something very special here. But, I can’t help but discuss it in here with people who see what I do just cause the idea is so cool. Here is one of the original discussions on this: > [@Revitalizing the Discourse Hub](https://meta.discourse.org/t/revitalizing-the-discourse-hub/15029): > > The original basic idea of the Discourse Hub have a reserved @username across all Discourse instances, so when someone sees @username on any Discourse forum, they’ll know it is (probably) you! … seems like kind of a bad idea in retrospect. Why? Well, if you run your own Discourse, and your name is @david, you probably want to be called @david, even if some other David reserved the name in Feburary 2013 here on meta. It is your community, after all, who are we to tell you that you can’t use y… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-would-it-take-to-replace-facebook-with-discourse/84060)._