Comment by mastazi

If we're going minimal, then why not Finger as a Twitter replacement?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)

Finger communities/hosting:

https://finger.farm/

https://happynetbox.com/

https://plan.cat/ (thank you gbrown for reminding me of this)

browsers that support finger (in addition to other protocols such as Gopher and Gemini):

https://kristall.random-projects.net/

https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/