stoned thought:
Mastodon, but built as a Wordpress plugin.
Everyone loves to shit on Wordpress but if you slap a security plugin in there and let it autoupdate it is a very solid platform.
You get autoupdates. You get easily customizable themes. You get full markup.
There's a plugin that runs an entire BBS inside WP. It's 657k unzipped. Wordpress itself is ~25mb unzipped. Masto's like 1gb.
Who wants to make WordPresstodon? I would donate to that Patreon.
@anthracite it's already 1/3 of the way there; there is a plugin that turns WordPress blogs into basically a single user instance that can't follow anyone but can receive replies