# 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:** 5

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-would-it-take-to-replace-facebook-with-discourse/84060/5 "2018-03-28T19:32:54Z")

</div>

Yeah.

I agree with you Discourse excels at the features you list.

What I’m struggling with now is … how to get past the Facebook-era?

How do we replace Facebook?

There is no option but to tackle this … we can’t let a single private company control so much private data … it’s completely untenable!!

So what will replace it?

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-would-it-take-to-replace-facebook-with-discourse/84060)._