I'm a big fan of open platforms like mastodon and Gnu Social, and even i acknowledge that twitter and facebook may not be fully replaced any time soon...But the

I'm a big fan of open platforms like mastodon and Gnu Social, and even i acknowledge that twitter and facebook may not be fully replaced any time soon...But the world is big enough for all to co-exist. And, just because mastodon won;'t replace twitter/facebook, shouldn't stop us all from playing/working on it. Also, my bet on what platform will (eventually) replace IRC is matrix; see https://matrix.org/#about https://matrix.org/#about Of course, that's just my opinion.